"Lake Ladoga" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Russia before long, hoping to beget Czars; which issues dreadfully for himself and the potential Czars he begot. The reader has heard of a potential "Czar Iwan," violently done to death in his room, one dim moonlight night of 1764, in the Fortress of Schlusselburg, middle of Lake Ladoga; misty moon looking down on the stone battlements, on the melancholy waters, and saying nothing.—But let ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. IX. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle |
