Public Lectures on Peter the Great

“…The first duty of an educated society is to clarify for itself the meaning of the activity of a great person; to recognize one’s attitude to this activity, to its results, to learn how much these results have entered our life, what they have produced in it, what their significance is for the present, for the future…

… In the name of the greatest laborer of the Russian land, I invite you, gentlemen, to work—to review his labor, to reflect upon it.”

“Public readings about Peter the Great,” S. M. Solovyov