1634: THE BALTIC WAR — snippet 11
1624: THE BALTIC WAR – snippet 11:
After the concert was over, John Simpson waited while his wife did her usual gadding about, congratulating the performers, chatting—or chatting up, rather—various key members of the nobility and wealthy merchants present, comparing notes quickly with Amelie Elisabeth and the Abbess of Quedlinburg. The usual conspiratorial business of the Dame of Magdeburg, in her drive to turn the brand new USE’s brand new capital city into one of Europe’s cultural powerhouses.