Peter the Great: The Tsar Who Remade Russia
Peter the Great: The Tsar Who Remade Russia In the autumn of 1697, a giant of a man — six feet seven inches tall, with restless dark eyes and hands already thickening with calluses — bent over a half-finished ship’s hull in a Dutch yard at Zaandam and swung a hammer like any other apprentice carpenter. His name, as far as his coworkers knew, was Peter...
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