EDUCATION OF THE CALVINIST GOVERNOR: THE CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH OF FREDERICK WILLIAM, ELECTOR OF BRANDERBURG
In the childhood and youth future Great Elector Frederick William received Calvinist education and formation which had all-round character and prepared him for the mission of a large statesman. He spent his childhood and youth in conditions of the developed Thirty-year war. The worldview of Frederick William was influenced by years of his study in Holland where he got acquainted with the most developed in Europe and society state.