| Show WHEN CHARACTER COUNTS the other day the house occupied by peter the great sit at Za andam holland wa was s within a protected building the opening ceremony was performed in the presence 1 of the rut russian ms I 1 a n consul general and other notables notably the building bears a commemorative tablet w with ith these words nords in ili dutch anil and russian in HOT the czar peter tho the great dwelt in this dili houe on the from ath 10 of august in ili slay ilay 1093 it cited it on his way back to in 1717 tho the czar peter the great again visited it walh ith tile iho farress I cocherl lie anti anil their sulie suite in n ihli bib king 1 I 0 of o the nother nellier an inus d hought it rot for tho the purpose 3 0 of f oter ing ap it to the grant grand anna pa lovna viorna married in isufi 1816 to the hereditary priny alno aft afir rard aaril wing william II 11 L in king kang william III presented tho the greats house bouso as a gilt to the E emperor alexander now peter the great was to ni all intents and purposes PO fo far as aa pol polite to solety society C Is concerned a barbarian the houses lie occupied lie left in such condition that thal it nas a question with the owners Nh whether ether they should try I 1 to 0 them or burn them up tip and yet behind all ills his ignorance and rudeness peter the great had biad a mat great brain and shines back bach across the years since lie he occupied that house the splendor 0 of a character which sanc titles the old house even now ile he was rou ah and rude but there moved in his brain the germs not only of all that was great in russia now but all that will bo be great two hundred years from now jhc when n russia russ will ie bo the absolute ruler of the eastern world and the mightiest empire ever erected on earth that one mind shins shines down through the centuries and as the reader searches back through history to und find potential landina landmarks land maiks iks from which to date great events it he cannot evade that colossal statue of reter peter the great that stands out in the gloom of two hundred years ago EL a mighty controlling factor rude and boulli in its exterior but containing within it the soul floell that was great enough to lay dio the foundation of an empire that will be a controlling force la in this arld world tor for centuries to come after all there Is nothing much to redeem men ex except capt a redeeming mind and tho the great mind cannot be dimmed by all the abrasions abrasion sr of the years and by all the polish which succeeding generations can establish as necessary tor for a tabernacle acla tor for the human soul |
