563. Peter the Great: Bloodbath in the Kremlin (Part 2)

The Tsar is a man of very hot temper, soon inflamed, and very brutal in his passion. He raises his natural heat by drinking much brandy, which he rectified himself with great application. He is subject to convulsive motions all over his body, and his head seems to be afflicted with these. He was desirous to understand our doctrine.

He was indeed resolved to encourage learning, and to polish his people by sending some of them to travel in other countries, and to draw strangers to come and live among them. He seemed apprehensive still, of his sister's intrigues. After I had seen him often and had conversed much with him, I could not but adore the depth of the providence of God that had raised up such a furious man to so absolute authority over so great a part of the world. So there we have a Scotsman, Dominic, as you could tell from my magnificent impression of a Scotsman.

Yeah. A man called Gilbert Burnett, who met with Peter the Great in London in 1698. But by far the most significant and interesting thing about Gilbert Burnett is that he was the bishop of Salisbury. He was.

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