Today I learned that Piotr the Great, ruler of Russia beginning in 1682, plowed the Russian Empire to search for dwarfs and giants, with the aim of creating a race of every kind.
In addition, he established the Kunstkamera Museum where an exhibition of babies and twisted fetuses. The museum's treasure was huge, and after the death of the pewter treasure he exhibited his body there.
Piotr, Czar and Grand Duke, the sole ruler of the great, small and white Russia of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod, Czar Kazan, Tsar Astrakhan, Czar of Siberia, the lord of Pskov, the great prince of Smolensk, The lord and the great prince of Nizhny Novgorod, Chernigov, Ryazen, Rostov, Yaroslavl, Lucreto, Audur, Obdoria and Condé, ruler of all northern lands, lord of the blind countries of the Carthaginians and Georgians The Carpardian of the Circassians and the Gursian princes, and of all the other lands, Master and Ruler.
Source: http://www.academia.edu/7823914/The_Monsters_of_Peter_the_Great_The_Culture_of_the_St
