Transcriber's Note: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including inconsistent spelling and tenses. Some changes have been made. They are listed at the end of the text. The table of contents was created by the transcriber. Italic text has been marked with _underscores_. OE ligatures have been expanded. [Illustration: _H. Corbould._ _W. Chevalier._ _He ran every where in person to put a stop to the pillage and slaughter._ _Chap. 13._] THE HISTORY _OF_ PETER THE GREAT. [Illustration: _H. Corbould._ _W. Chevalier._ _Council him for his own safety, not to pardon me._ _Chap. 36._] London: ENGRAVED FOR THE ENGLISH CLASSICS. PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL JOHNSON & SON. MANCHESTER. THE HISTORY OF PETER THE GREAT, EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. FROM THE FRENCH OF VOLTAIRE, BY SMOLLETT. MANCHESTER: S. JOHNSON & SON, No. 3, OLDHAM-STREET; AND 48, CHURCH-ST., LIVERPOOL. MDCCCXLV. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Description of Russia. II. Continuation of the description of Russia, population, finances, armies, customs, religion: state of Russia before Peter the Great. III. The ancestors of Peter the Great. IV. John and Peter. Horrible Sedition among the Strelitzes. V. Administration of the princess Sophia. Extraordinary quarrel about religion. A conspiracy. VI. The reign of Peter the First.--Beginning of the grand reformation. VII. Congress and Treaty with the Chinese. VIII. Expedition to the Palus Mæotis; conquest of Azoph.--The czar sends young gentlemen into foreign countries for improvement. IX. Travels of Peter the Great. X. A conspiracy punished.--The corps of strelitzes abolished, alterations in customs, manners, church, and state. XI. War with Sweden.--The battle of Narva. XII. Resources after the battle of Narva. That disaster entirely repaired. Peter gains a victory near the same place. The person who was afterwards empress made prisoner at the storming of a town. Peter's successes. His triumph at Moscow. XIII. Reformation at Moscow.--Further successes.--Founding of Petersburg.--The czar takes Narva, &c.