PETERHOF 



a model galley from Holland. Twenty-two 

 copies were made from it ; twenty-six thousand 

 labourers working night and day. " We have 

 finished our task, because, like our father Adam, 

 we ate our bread in the sweat of our brow," 

 said Peter, living in a two-roomed house 

 among his workmen. He commanded the 

 " Sea-Caravan " from his galley Principium, 

 which he made with his own hands. In the 

 end Azov was captured, the first triumph ever 

 won by the Muscovites over the Turks, and 

 a naval station was established there in 1696. 



At Koppenburgh the Tsar met Sophia, 

 Electress of Hanover, and her daughter, 

 Charlotte of Brandenburg. He travelled by 

 the Rhine and Amsterdam to Zaandam. At 

 Utrecht he was introduced to William III. At 

 Amsterdam, where he spent four and a half 

 months, he learnt to engrave ; also he built and 

 launched his first frigate there. He went on from 

 Holland to England, where he studied naval con- 

 struction on geometrical principles, working at the 

 Royal Naval Docks, Deptford. Peter now re- 

 turned to Russia, and in May 1703 a little wooden 

 village began to rise up on the northern shore of 



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