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Circumstances attendant to the Napoleonic wars in Europe and in Franconia where he was born caused Dr. George Anton Schaeffer (1779-1836) and his wife Barbara to travel to Moscow, Russia, where Tsar Alexander I's army had offered employment to foreign physicians. George quickly rises into a position of administration of the foreign physicians in Moscow and he and Barbara become Russian citizens. The Tsar's brother, the Grand Duke Konstantin, sends...
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In this third book in the George Anton Schaeffer trilogy, Dr. George Anton Schaeffer has been expelled from Hawaii and finds sanctuary in Macau, China. From there he and two companions cross the Pacific and round Cape Horn on a Portuguese ship, arriving in Rio de Janeiro in April of 1818. There he revives his acquaintance with the Brazilian royalty, especially the German-speaking young wife, Dona Leopoldina, of Emperor Dom Joao's son Pedro, who is...
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Circumstances attendant to the Napoleonic wars in Europe caused Dr. George Anton Schaeffer (1779-1836) and his wife Barbara to move to Moscow, Russia, in 1810. They do well in Moscow society, gaining influential friends and considerable wealth in George's venture to manufacture laudanum as an anesthetic for the military. They become Russian citizens, move into a large house with servants, and, in early 1812, have a daughter Inga. When Napoleon Bonaparte...
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