Excerpt from Peter the Great: A Play in Five Acts<br><br>Scene. Moscow, tke Kremlin. Summer time. A gloomy, vaulted, circular apartment, leading out t/zrougk large window at back on to a raised way, faced by a parapet and led up to by a fligkt of steps (out of sigkt). Door rigkt, ajar. Two doors left. A large table wit/t food and drink on it, in middle of room a smaller table, covered witk papers and writing materials, down L. A bureau, style Louis XIV, against rigkt wall on bureau, two dirty books, several maps, some matkematical in struments, and a mariner's compass, all mixed up anykow t/iis bureau is tbc one piece of furniture in tke room tkat is not in Me old Russian style. A couck at rigkt of window. [kons with a ligkt in front of tkem.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.