Peter the Great Petrus Alexewitz Czar et Magnus Dux Moscoviæ

by Johann Christian Weigel

$350 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Early 18th-century print of Peter the Great. Peter the Great 1672-1725 was one of the dominant figures of the period and the most famous Czar. He greatly increased Russia's political significance and her territory, at the same time endeavored, with mixed results, to transplant western European cultural values and ways. His beardlessness was an example, and his tax on beards aroused considerable resentment. Johann Christoph Weigel 1654-1726 was a Nuremberg engraver, who

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