Beards might seem like an odd target for taxation, but to Peter the Great ... transformation, he also sought to imitate the region’s very fashion sense. After Peter’s triumphant return to ...

Czar Peter the Great of Russia casts a long shadow over history. A giant of a man, with appetites for learning and adventure to match, he did more to modernize his country than pretty much any ...

Alexandra Kulikova used to come across plenty of different European languages on the streets of Saint Petersburg, the iconic city founded by Peter the Great as Russia's "window to the West".

Peter dramatically expanded the contours of his rule, turning Russia into an empire and declaring himself an emperor. At the turn of the 18th century, he launched the Great Northern War ...

Peter the First, or Peter the Great, is credited with expanding Russia into an empire and a major European power. He is also remembered for ending the supremacy of the Swedish navy in the Baltic ...

June 9 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin paid tribute on Thursday to Tsar Peter the Great on the 350th anniversary ... he returned (what was Russia's)," Putin said after a visiting ...

Vladimir Putin's admiration for Peter the Great is well known but he now seems to have ideas of "Great"-ness himself. He has openly compared himself to the Russian tsar, equating Russia's invasion ...