Word: peter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Dunbar, N. A. A., H. W. Burdon, N. A. A., J. T. Roche, Jr. H., W. J. Denholm, H., E. B. Neilson, H., M. Green, H., W. Robinson, S. A. C., F. P. Garvan, Y. A. A., W. A. Holt, Jr., H., J. J. Peter...
...plaster cast of the "Pieta," by Michael Angelo, the original of which is in St. Peter's at Rome, has also been received recently...
Inviting you to all that is beautiful and noble, I ask you to follow with me the history and literary and literary development of my country. The first striking figure in Russia's history is Peter the Great. He marks the moment in the nation's life when her own his orical development was augmented by the outside influence of other nations. He shatters the wall separating Russia for 700 years from the rest of the world. But Peter's name marks one transition moment. The personality of the Empress Catherine II seems to absorb the entire eighteenth century...
...last year of Peter's reign the Academy of Sciences was established. The first scientists were Germans, who had no part in advancing Russian literature. The first real litterateur was Prince Cantamile. He wrote the first Russian verses-mainly satires directed against those who opposed the reforms of Peter the Great. The next great writer was Lomonossov. Abandoning the life of a fisherman he fled to Moscow, and later to St. Petersburg, where he obtained his education. He marks the real beginning of Russian poetry. He was in literary life what Peter the Great was in practical life. He expelled...
...XVIII century in Russia. Peter I to Catherine II. The Academy of Science. Lomonossov,- the scientist, the poet. Russian pseudo-classicism,- Loumarokov, Trediakovsky. Accession of Catherine the Great. French philosophy in Russia. Pseudo-classical literature...