The moment one disembarks the way to Peter's residence begins to be pointed out.

Little boys run before; sturdy men walk beside; old men (one with a wooden leg) struggle behind.

It was later that the Czar crossed to England and worked in the same way at Deptford; but no visitor to Deptford to-day is required to see his lodging there.
The real interest of Zaandam is not its connection with Peter the Great but the circumstance that it was the birthplace of Anton Mauve, in 1838.

He died at Arnheim in 1888, Neither Zaandam nor Arnheim honours him..