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Peter the Great
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- Pemilik hak cipta
- Head of Zeus
- Tahun publikasi
- 2012
- Penerbit
- Head of Zeus
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- Anna Chasovikovamembuat kutipankemarin
Peter wanted his subjects to learn seamanship and sailing, so he insisted that they cross the Neva by boat—without oars. For those who could not afford a private boat, twenty government-authorized ferryboats were permitted, but the boatmen, most of them ignorant peasants, were often confounded by the rapid current and by strong gusts of wind. Only after the Polish ambassador, a major general and one of the Tsar’s own doctors had drowned in successive sailing accidents did Peter relent and allow the ferrymen the use of oars. - Anna Chasovikovamembuat kutipankemarinPeter used Menshikov’s palace much as he had used the large house built earlier in Moscow for Francis Lefort, preferring himself to live more simply in houses with no chamber sufficiently large for mass entertaining. Sometimes, when Menshikov was receiving for the Tsar, Peter would look across the river from his own smaller house, see the lighted windows of Menshikov’s great palace and say to himself with a chuckle, “Danil’ich is making merry.”
- Anna Chasovikovamembuat kutipankemarin duluThe ride made another astonishing story. In less than fourteen days, the King had traveled from Pitesti in Walachia to Stralsund on the Baltic, a distance of 1,296 miles. Of this, 531 miles had been traveled in post coaches, the rest on horseback. His average pace was more than 100 miles a day, and during the last six days and nights from Vienna to Stralsund, when the waxing moon aided him by lighting the roads, his speed was even greater: Charles covered 756 miles in six days and nights. He traveled without once removing his clothes or boots; when he arrived in Stralsund, the boots had to be cut from his feet.
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