Dutch Treat; In New York, a Delightful Display of Old Masters, on Loan From Leningrad

The Washington Post | April 3, 1988| | Copyright

Peter the Great, the Russian czar, was deeply fond of Amsterdam. He loved its calm canals, its cosmopolitan comforts, its unaffected art. He visited the city first in 1696, traveling incognito. He went there for the ships.

As a child he'd discovered a little English sailing boat rotting in a shed on his family's estate, and had patiently rebuilt it. As a ruler he commissioned Russia's first imperial navy. Though a giant of a man (he was 6 feet 6 inches tall), Peter was among the most down to earth of monarchs. The sea was his delight. He loved the creak of rigging, the slap of waves on ...

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