CHAT: Peter I (jara: NATLANG: Scary Document)
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 7, 2003, 20:11 |
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--- Pavel Iosad skrzypszy:
> > Here in Zaandam, only three minutes frommy place, we
> > have a huge statue of Peter I, who spent some time here and took
> > home a lot of knowledge, vocabulary, and Dutch workers...
>
> How huge is it, by the way? :-) Most Dutch descriptions of Peter den
> Store I've read portray him as gigantic. I wonder if this has been
> reflected in the statue :-)
Hmm, a rough guess: 4-5 meters.
> But I don't think it's larger than the awful one we have here stuck in
> the middle of Moskva river. :-(
No, ours is definitely not awful. It's quite nice actually (and the text on it
is in Russian!)
Jan
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