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Peter The Great 2
Title: Peter The Great 2
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 2123 | Pages: 9.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Peter The Great 2
PETER THE GREAT
THE REVOLUTIONARY CZAR OF RUSSIA
Peter the First of Russia (more commonly known as Peter the Great) was born the son of Alexis Michailovich Romanov and Natalia Cyrilovna Narishkina on June 9, 1672 in Moscow, Russia (2:242-243). Alexis was overjoyed, and a great gingerbread cake with the double eagle was made, cannons were fired, and bells rang all over the land (4:89). But at his birth, it was not known that he would be the future …showed first 75 words of 2123 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2123 total…supremely Russian; without any doubt, the greatest Czar Russia ever had. Gaurila Derzhavin, the 18th century Russian poet, asked: ”Was it not God, who in person, came down to earth?“ (4:107)
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Massie, Robert L.; Peter the Great; NY; Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; 1980.
Massie, Suzanne; Land of the Firebird; NY; Simon and Schuster; 1980.
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