Izmailovsky Park

This guide to Izmailovsky Park in Moscow follows a teenage Peter the Great, who in the spring of 1688 found a wrecked English-built boat in a storeroom on this estate and grew obsessed with it. It traces how a Dutch seafarer explained why the boat could sail against the wind, how another Dutchman patched it up, and how Peter launched it on these very ponds. Listen for the story of the trip he later talked his mother into, dressed up as a pilgrimage.