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Pérugini, Pietro le. 1445-1523. Italian painter. Taught Raphael. St. Peter and Keys 1482 (Sistine Chapel).
Peter, St. -64. Leader of Jesus’ disciples. First pope. Crucified upside-down by Nero.
Peter I. The Great. 1672-1725. Czar of Russia. Created navy. Defeated Sweden 1709. Founded St. Petersburg.
Peter II. 1923-70. King of Yugoslavia 1934-45. Deposed in exile by Tito.
Peter the Hermit. 1050-1115. French. Led ill-equipped army in First Crusade.
Peterhouse. 1284. First Cambridge college.
Peterloo Massacre. 1819. Peaceful Manchester demonstration for parliamentary reform suppressed by cavalry. 500 casualties. Ultra tories limit freedom of press, assembly.
Peter’s Pence. Tithe paid to papacy.
Petersburg Campaign. 1864-5. Virginia. Final action of American Civil War leading to Confederate defeat.
Peterskirche. 13C. Zurich church with world’s largest clock face, 28.5 feet.
Potter, Beatrix. 1866-1943. English children’s story writer. Peter Rabbit 1900.
Prokofiev, Sergei. 1891-1953. Russian Romantic opera and symphony composer, pianist. Strong folk element. Peter and the Wolf 1936.
Roget, Peter. 1779-1869. English physician. Thesaurus 1852.
Roman Catholic Church. 30-. Branch of Christianity recognizing Pope as successor to St Peter. East-West Schism. Eastern Orthodoxy. Protestantism.
Rubens, Peter Paul. 1577-1640. Flemish Baroque painter. Sensuous works. Descent from Cross 1611. Médicis cycle 1621-5. Peace and War c1630.
Sayers, Dorothy. 1893-1957. English mystery writer. Lord Peter Wimsey.
Sidmouth, First viscount. 1757-1844. British Prime Minister 1801-4. Treaty of Amiens. Peterloo Massacre.
Six Acts. 1819. Suppressed Radicals after Peterloo.
Sophia Alekseyevna. 1657-1704. Regent of Russia 1682-9 for Ivan V and Peter I.
St Peter’s. 1506-1615. Vatican Basilica. World’s largest. Tomb of St Peter. Bramante. Michelangelo. Raphael. Model for many government buildings.
St Petersburg. 1703 Founded by Peter I. 1914 =Petrograd. 1924 =Leningrad. 1991 =St Petersburg again.
Stuyvesant, Peter. c1610-72. Dutch governor of New Amsterdam.
Supreme Privy Council. 1726-30. Effectively ruled Russia after Peter the Great’s death without heir.
Tchaikovsky, Peter. 1840-93. Russian composer of operas and ballets with emotional appeal. Swan Lake 1877. Sleeping Beauty 1890. Nutcracker 1892.