Voltaire (1694-1778) was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher, satirist, and historian. One of Voltaire’s best-known histories is History of Charles XII (1731). The quotes below are taken from the 1851 translation of the work into English published in New York by Leavitt Company. It is available at Archive.org. (That is the reason why the name Ukraine is spelled in … Continue reading Voltaire – ‘Ukraine always aspired to Liberty’, Prince of Ukraine Mazeppa, Czar Peter I of Muscovy