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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 8147419, member: 12789&quot;]I&#039;ve read quite a bit about Petr I and he is indeed a fascinating character.&nbsp; He travelled extensively - highly unusual for anyone, particularly an autocratic leader of a large nation to do in that time.</p><p><br /></p><p>In his extensive travels in Poland, Germany, France, Netherlands and the United Kingdom - I wonder how exposed to actual non-noble personages he was.&nbsp; I know that in his time in the Netherlands that he worked in a shipwrights shop to acquire the ship building skills that he would take back to Russia.&nbsp; I wonder, were all the men building ships in Rotterdam clean shaven?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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