2-660-786 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Peter der Große 1672-1725', 1934. Peter I, the Great (1672-1725), Tsar of Russia. Peter became Tsar in 1682. He embarked on a campaign to modernise and Europeanise Russia, socially, economically and militarily, and develop her into a maritime power. From "Die Großen der Weltgeschichte". [Eckstein-Halpaus, Dresden, 1934]