Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia mb-code US003304 'The Church

'The Church

'Falcon Coal Wharf

ma sempre senza dileguarsi inà' An observation of volcanic activity at Mount Vesuvius near the Bay of Naples

Richard Waller was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1681

Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia mb-code US003304 'The ChurchPeter the Great, Tsar of Russia, (1906). From the original painting by Jean Marc Nattier, in the Versailles Museum, France. Peter (1672 1725) became Tsar in 1682. He embarked on a campaign to modernise and Europeanise Russia, socially, economically and militarily, and develop her into a maritime power. A print from Queen Anne, by Herbert Paul, Goupil and Co, London, 1906.