德国人和俄国人之间的交往最早可以追溯到中世纪早期,人们只需要回顾一下汉萨同盟的城市在东西欧贸易方面所起的重要作用就足够了。从近代早期起,沙皇俄国和德国各个联邦国家的交往非常频繁,关系尤其密切的是普鲁士和沙皇宫廷。七年战争期间,当腓特烈大帝还在不遗余力地坚持反对由奥地利人、法国人和俄国人组成的 The earliest German-Russian exchanges date back to the early Middle Ages, and one need only recall that the Hanseatic city played an important role in the trade between East and West. From the early modern days, the contacts between Czarist Russia and the various federal states in Germany have been very frequent, with the Prussian and Tsarist royal courts being particularly closely connected. During the seven years of war, when Frederick the Great was still sparing no effort to uphold the opposition made up of Austrians, French, and Russians