Peter the Great

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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.