Western Civilization II / Unit 3 WC2 0212 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Peter the Great, 1682 to 1725: A Tsar Disguised as a Workman
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The idea
Russia was so little known that Louis XIV wrote to a tsar twelve years dead. Peter, tsar from sixteen eighty-two, learned of the West from foreigners and traveled there on the Grand Embassy, working disguised in shipyards to learn ships and military organization.
In practice
The witness: joint rule to sixteen ninety-six; Azov taken that year.
Where people slip
Seven feet tall, the anchor says; attributed.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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