3-074-711 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Peter the Great's Signature in Luther's room, Wittenberg, 1883. 'The exhibition [at the Luther Hall] contains a remarkable signature of the Czar, Peter the Great, written by himself in chalk, and now protected by glass above Cranach's picture of Luther...[The czar], who visited Luther's rooms at the University of Wittenberg, wrote his signature, or the initials of his name, in Russian characters, on the door'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.