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It is named for Czar Peter the Great, who ruled Russia from 1682 to 1725. In 1984, the Soviet Union claimed the bay as its internal waters by drawing a 106-nautical mile closing line along its coasts.
Peter the Great visited the West twice during his lifetime. Those visits modernized Russia and fostered ambitions which remain to this day.
Although Peter the Great could only wear the imperial crown for just three years, his military, political, and social conquests were so significant that his death, which marks three centuries this ...
Martus, from St Petersburg in Russia, attempted to rectify this in 2024 by reflagging the ship with that of the Cook Islands.
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.
A controversial sailing ship which is a replica of a vessel built by Russia's Peter the Great in the early eighteenth century ...
DEATH OF THE CZAR.; THE DESCENDANT OF PETER THE GREAT HAS PASSED AWAY. His Death Is a Solemn Warning to Hundreds of Men and Women Who Are Alive To-day -- Uneasiness in Europe.
Speaking on Russia's Navy Day in the former imperial capital of St Petersburg founded by Tsar Peter the Great, Putin praised Peter for making Russia a great sea power and increasing the global ...
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.
Russia has announced that work to recreate one of its greatest art treasures, Peter the Great's Amber Room, has been completed just weeks before the city of his name celebrates its 300th anniversary.
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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