But, above all, it shifted the center of power in northern Europe from Stockholm to St. Petersburg and turned Russia into an empire, with its tsar, Peter the Great, becoming its first emperor.

He has been evoking World War II and his idol, Russian tsar Peter the Great. Putin, according to a New York Times report in 2002, has a portrait of Peter hanging in his Kremlin office.

On one court visit in 1739, at age 10, Sophie met her recently orphaned second cousin, Karl Peter Ulrich—the only surviving grandson of Tsar Peter I, better known as Peter the Great.

He had come to sell $1,000,000 of jewels —some of which once belonged to Tsar Peter the Great, Catherine II, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

Tsar Peter, perhaps to spare his son, the Tsarevitch Alexius, such pangs of doubt, had the boy murdered. He also decapitated one of his mistresses, Mary Hamilton, and delivered an anatomical ...

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Martus, from St Petersburg in Russia, attempted to rectify this in 2024 by reflagging the ship with that of the Cook Islands.

One of Russia’s greatest military victories came with the coldest European winter in 500 years. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Tsar Peter the Great struggled to repel the formidable ...

For a Russian tsar, Peter’s reputation is generally pretty good (maybe not “Great” really, but pretty good.) He is credited with modernizing Russia and making it a major European power.