Memory of the world: Russia and Belgium will celebrate the 300th anniversary of Peter the Great

Russia and Belgium are preparing to celebrate in the coming year the 300th anniversary of the visit of Peter the Great, said Russia's Ambassador to Belgium Alexander Tokovinin.

"We are currently working on drawing up a program that would allow celebrating in 2017 the 300th anniversary of the visit here of Peter the Great, who visited Antwerp, Liege and Spa", - Tokovinin said.

According to him, now with the authorities of these cities "is worked out the possibility of a worthy way to celebrate this event, which will highlight that between our peoples there are indeed very old deep relations that have taken place even before Belgium acquired the status of an independent state".