michaelhoff

Updated: May 27, 2025

Here, as the historians of the times say, he entered himself as a common ship-carpenter, being enrolled in the list of the company's workmen by the name Peter Michaelhoff, which was as nearly as possible his real name. He lived here several months, and devoted himself diligently to his work.

Jacob Abbott - Peter the Great

The scene of 'Czar und Zimmermann, which is fairly well known in England as 'Peter the Shipwright, is laid at Saardam, where Peter the Great is working in a shipyard under the name of Michaelhoff.

R. A. (Richard Alexander) Streatfeild - The Opera : A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.