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81 - 15, which it has rushed against its own opponent, Rußlend, at the decisive moment in the lurch. Sweden can sing a song at all of the infidelity of English politics. England, however, with its grip, got to Russia that Peter must be modest. The result of the Nordic war is still very favourable to him, because England is not yet using all its power against Russia, because it does not yet see the Russian threat as too great, and on the other hand trade with Russia becomes more important from year to year for the expansion of the narrow-lying fleet. But the unconditional supremacy on the Baltic Sea, which Peter aspired to, has been failed by the Dazwi 1) step up of England.1) England, on the other hand, achieves no success in its efforts to prevent the conclusion of the Russian-Turkish Treaty of 1 724. England fears the transfer of the so far in its hands 2) Persian silk trade to Russia. The ingenious creator of the Russian great power shows himself politically superior to the merchant spirit of his English opponents, just like half a century later his great successor Catherine II., England, tries to keep Russia in the up to date colonial dependence. Peter, however, takes the primacy of political thinking over the economic one of the English, asserting himself by fighting for equal rights for his people in Europe. 3i The first English-Russian alliance ( 1727 - 1791 ) Among the successors of Peter the Great and during the long succession of the throne, the Russian threat to the English fades. In English it is attempted to find the Wie- 1) diaper band, The foreign policy of the great powers in modern times, Essen 1936, p.167. 2) Ubersberger, p.139.