What were the key political and religious differences between France, Russia, Prussia, and England during the period 1450€“1750?

Given
that this question is very broad as stated, it might be best if we approached it in an inverted
form by first focusing on what the similarities were among these states
during the period referred to. We can then extrapolate the primary or central differences as
negatives and perhaps can grasp them better in that way and arrive at a concise solution to the
question at hand.

France, England, and Russia all, during that 300-year
span, emerged from periods of internal and external strife to become unified, powerful
nation-states. France expelled the English in the Hundred Years' War, then settled its internal
religious conflicts in the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation and became a unified Roman
Catholic kingdom under an absolute monarchy. The Russians, after expelling the Tatar overlords
who had controlled the country for 200 years and then going through a period of internal
disorder known as the Time of Troubles, emerged as an absolute monarchy under the Romanovs and
secured its...