Peter the Great

In his researches on iron in plants, Lemery also discovered that by dissolving iron filings in spirit of niter [nitric acid], he could make an iron plant or tree of Mars. When Tsar Peter the Great visited the Academy, Lemery showed him this curious chemical vegetation. The... 

Dmitri Ivanovitch MendeHeff came of a family of heroic pioneers. More than a century before his birth, Peter the Great had started to westernize Russia. Upon a marsh of pestilence he reared a mighty dty which was to be Russia s window to the West. For three-quarters of a century Russia s intellectual march eastward continued, until in 1787 in Tobolsk, Siberia, the grandfather of Dmitri opened up the first printing press, and with the spirit of a pioneer published the first newspaper in Siberia, the Irtysch. In this desolate spot, settled two centuries before by the Cossacks, Dmitri was bom on February 7, 1834. He was the last of a family of seventeen children. 

Anikiyev V. V., PerepeUtsa S. A., and ShumiUn Ye. N. (1993) Effects of man-made and natural sources on the heavy-metal patterns in bottom sediments in the Gulf of Peter the Great, Sea of Japan. Geokhimiya 9, 1328—1340. 

The bones were officially buried on July 17, 1998, in the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg, resting place of all the Romanov czars since Peter the Great. The date marked the eightieth anniversary of the Romanov execution (Caryl). 

The Batavian Hippocrates, as he was sometimes called, certainly had an extremely broad education, including also the humanities and theology, and a remarkable grasp not only of medicine but also of botany and chemistry. In fact, he held chairs in all these three subjects at Leyden University. His international reputation was the main reason for the fame of its medical school, which attracted students from all over Europe, among them men such as Carolus Linnaeus and Albrecht von Haller, who would later become world famous in botany and physiology. Even the czar of all Russians, Peter the Great, attended Boerhaave s lectures during his stay in the Netherlands. 

Peiidn, William Henry (1860-1929), 150 Peter the Great (Peter 1) (reigned 1689-1725), 282... 

CHAPLYGEsrA s F (1993) Hydroids in the fouling of mariculture instaUations in Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan , Russ J Mar Biol, 19,29-36. 

During this work the coast territory of Primorsky Krai, the shore of the Sea of Okhotsk on the territory of Khabarovsk Krai, Gulf of Peter the Great, and the coast of Kuril Islands Shikotan, Kunashir, Iturup, and partly Paramushir, were investigated. 

Sample 2 is the so-called first cluster, including the bay in the Gulf of Peter the Great. 

This work presents the results of an extensive complex of field and laboratory studies. We have examined the coast of Primorye, the Sea of Okhotsk in the Khabarovsk Krai, Gulf of Peter the Great, and the Kuril Islands (Shikotan, Kunashir, Iturup and, partly, Paramushir). On the basis of summarizing the data collected a number of important methodological problems were solved and the main factors of tsunami wave generation and their impact on the coast were revealed. The methods of tsunami risk assessment are suggested. 

Most Russian titles in the civil service can be traced back to 1722, when Peter the Great set up a schedule of fourteen official ranks, known as the Table of Ranks. Their order was as follows, from the highest (class 1) to the lowest ... 

Three diterpenes with new carbon skeletons have been isolated from the species DUophus okamurae collected around Awashima Island, Japan, Dictyota crenulata harvested at Easter Island, and Dictyota dichotoma from Peter the Great Bay in the Sea of Japan. 

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