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Peter the Great, by Jacob Abbott
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Title: Peter the Great
Author: Jacob Abbott
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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, of the great Mus