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- Title: Peter the Great
- Author : Jacob Abbott
- Release Date : January 31, 2015
- Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 586 KB
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There are very few persons who have not heard of the fame of Peter the Great, the founder, as he is generally regarded by mankind, of Russian civilization. The celebrity, however, of the great Muscovite sovereign among young persons is due in a great measure to the circumstance of his having repaired personally to Holland, in the course of his efforts to introduce the industrial arts among his people, in order to study himself the art and mystery of shipbuilding, and of his having worked with his own hands in a ship-yard there