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Makers of History

PETER THE GREAT

by

JACOB ABBOTT

With Engravings







[Illustration: PORTRAIT OF PETER THE GREAT.]



New York and London
Harper & Brothers Publishers
1902

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-nine, by
Harper & Brothers,
In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of
New York.

Copyright, 1887, by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott, Lyman
Abbott, and Edward Abbott.




PREFACE.

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, 