Some returned to the ship dressed as zouaves, others as artillerists; some in the yellow of cavalry, and so on through our various uniforms.

Of course they were greatly jeered by their comrades.
Everyone conversant with Russian history knows that Peter the Great went to England, and afterward to Holland, to study ship building.

He introduced naval construction from those countries, and brought from Holland the men to manage his first ships and teach his subjects the art of navigation.

As a result of his enterprise, the principal parts of a Russian ship have English or Dutch names, some words being changed a little to adapt them to Russian pronunciation.

The Dutch navigators exerted great influence upon the nautical language of Russia.