‪Respublika mechei ili torgovaia respublika ?‪ : Rossiiskaia istoricheskaia mysl´ `span class="petitecap"bxviii‑nachala `span class="petitecap"bxix v. o voennoi moshchi respublikanskogo Novgoroda

• Main Authors: Bugrov, Konstantin D., Sokolov, Sergei V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: hist; class; Republic of Novgorod
• Online Access: http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=CMR_591_0093

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