Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1903 — Man Saw Peter the Great. [ARTICLE]

Man Saw Peter the Great.

Russian newspapers claim that a man in the hospital at Tomsk is 200 years old. They say this statement is supported by documents. The man has been a widower 123 years. He had a son who died in 1824 aged 90 years. He remembers seeing Peter the Great. He is bedridden, but mentally sound.