Peter the Greatin a sentence
- And what Peter the Great did when he traveled through Europe incognito!† (source)
- Then, I read more about the Northern War (1700-21) involving Peter the Great, Charles XII, Augustus the Strong, Stanislaus Leczinsky, Mazeppa, von Gorz, Brandenburg, Western Pomerania, Eastern Pomerania and Denmark, plus the usual dates.† (source)
- Back in the seventeen hundreds, Prince Menshikov threw a party for Peter the Great—the tsar who built this city.† (source)
- Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Czar Alexander, they all tried it.† (source)
- The target figure for this year for all planetary emigration gates taken together — Emigrants' Gap, Peter the Great, and Witwatersrand Gates — is only seventy million emigrants or an average of eight thousand per hour.† (source)
- My grandfather entertained Peter the Great with a dwarf wedding.† (source)
- It is a pair of twins: Nikolai Ge's Peter the Great Interrogating Alexei and Ilya Repin's Ivan the Terrible and His Son.† (source)
- Since the time of Peter the Great, we have acted the poor cousin of the West—admiring their ideas as much as we admired their clothes.† (source)
- He came after the Great Fire, said to be caused by Mrs. O'Leary's cow, in flight from the conscription of the Hapsburg tyrant, and in his life as a builder proved that great places do not have to be founded on the bones of slaves, like the pyramids of Pharaohs or the capital of Peter the Great on the banks of the Neva, where thousands were trampled in the Russian marshes.† (source)
- But she knew that was only because, like Peter the Great in a shipwright's yard, he was studying what he wanted to know.† (source)
- Byron was as little of a philosopher as Peter the Great: both were instances of that rare and useful, but unedifying variation, an energetic genius born without the prejudices or superstitions of his contemporaries.† (source)
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- Similar plays, chiefly from the Old Testament, were occasionally performed in Moscow too, up to the times of Peter the Great.† (source)
- To historians who believe that Russia was shaped by the will of one man—Peter the Great—and that France from a republic became an empire and French armies went to Russia at the will of one man—Napoleon—to say that Russia remained a power because Napoleon had a bad cold on the twenty-fourth of August may seem logical and convincing.† (source)
- Ah, when one looks at our young people, Prince, one would like to take Peter the Great's old cudgel out of the museum and belabor them in the Russian way till all the nonsense jumps out of them."† (source)
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