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Identifier: mediaevalmodernh00myer (find matches)
Title: Mediaeval and modern history
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: Middle Ages History, Modern World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston : Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s from almost everyland of the West. It was in the free air of this foreign suburb thatPeter, while yet a mere boy, overjoyed to escape from the suffo-cating atmosphere of the palace, spent much of his time, and hereit was that he got his advanced ideas. Among the foreign residentsof the palace with whom Peter fraternized were the Swiss Lefort,the Scotch Gordon, and the Dutch Timmermann. Through theseand other foreign companions it was that Peter learned how back-ward and barbarous his own country was compared with the pro-gressive and civilized states of the West. 509. The Conquest of Azov (1696).^—^ In 1695 Peter saileddown the Don and made an attack upon Azov, the key to theBlack Sea, but was unsuccessful. The next year, however, repeat-ing the attempt, he succeeded, and thus gained his first harboron the south. No sooner had Peter secured his new harbor than he set inearnest about the construction of a marine fleet (1696-1697), in tor §\ % ^ Q =? I§ 3 c.^ ^ h^
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PETERS FIRST VISIT TO THE WEST 459 which enterprise he was aided by shipwrights whom he had calledfrom Venice and other Western states. So energetically was thework pushed that in less than two years a great fleet of war shipswas floating upon the streams running to the Sea of Azov. 510. Peters First Visit to the West (1697-1698). — With aview to advancing his naval projects, Peter about this time senta large number of young Russian nobles to Italy, Holland, andEngland to acquire in those countries a knowledge of naval affairs,forbidding them to return before they had become good sailors. Not satisfied with thus sending to foreign parts his young nobil-ity, Peter formed the somewhat startling resolution of going abroadhimself and learning the art of shipbuilding by personal experiencein the dockyards of Holland. Accordingly, in the year 1697, leav-ing the government in the hands of three nobles, he set out forthe Netherlands. Peter, with his uncouth barbarian suite, made a great sen

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