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Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R.: Anniversary Commemoration - Nature
THE Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. celebrates this year the 220th anniversary of its foundation by Peter the Great. At first the ...
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The U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences and the Third Five-Year Plan - Nature
THE Russian Academy of Sciences was founded in 1725 by Peter the Great as an “assembly of the best learned men” who were supposed to ...
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Folk-lore of the U.S.S.R - Nature
An expedition sent out to the Stalingrad Province by the University of Leningrad has collected much interesting material relating to the folk-lore of the Don Cossacks. In the villages and farmsteads ...
British Representatives at Soviet Academy Celebrations - Nature
The foundation of this Academy was in some measure due to the visit which Peter the Great paid to England in 1698, when he met men like ...
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The last Tsar and the first Emperor of Russia
Peter I, was Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia, known as Peter the Great, from 1721 until his death in 1725. He reigned jointly with his half-brother Ivan V until 1696. Wikipedia