in succession July 24, 1762, the Ge...

in succession July 24, 1762, the German bard Anna Luise Karsch wrote to her friend Gleim about a piece of stranges terrible to her Prussian sensibilities: a rebellion had occurr in Russia, and the tsar, Prussia's friend Peter III, had been depos It had taken couple weeks for word of this occurrence to travel from Petersburg to Berlin. upon July 29, five days after Karsch got the of the present days the first accurate and detailed accounts for readers further west were being produc in The Hague, although a garbled version was already appearing that same day in the London newspapers (Gentleman's 1762: 341) A hardly any ...