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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

St. Petersburg, Russia, prepares to celebrate its 300th birthday. Tsar Peter the Great ordered the city carved out of a swampy wilderness and envisioned it as Russia's "Window to Europe." The city ...

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A woman walks past the "Poltava", a modern copy of the Russian 54-gun sailing ship built in 1712 with participance of the Russian Tsar Peter The Great, moored on the ...

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.

A historical film about the life and state activities of Tsar Peter I, the reformer of Russia of the XVIII century, starting from the Battle of Narva in 1700 and ending with the adoption of the ...

View Tsar Peter the Great and his companions cruising off the Dutch coast in his boier by Abraham Jansz. Storck on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Abraham Jansz. Storck. Price ...