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Author:  Delia Goetz Copyright Date:  1945 Publisher:  Foreign Policy Association Pagination:  63 p.

A M E R I C A N S   A N D   R U S S I A N S   M E E T Americans and Russians first met and worked together in the Northwest. Yet the early pages of that story were written in Russia. There in 1682—the year that William Penn and his little band of followers set sail for America—Peter the Great became Tsar of Russia. He was almost seven feet tall, and his imagination, ability, and boundless energy matched his enormous fame. For almost forty-two years he labored to make his country strong. For centuries Russia had turned its back on Europe and the Western World. It had looked to the East, adopted its civilization, and clung to its traditions, disliking the new. P E T E R   A T   T H E   H E L M All this Peter determined to change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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