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.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis came under criticism on Monday for telling Russian youths to remember that they are the heirs of past tsars such as Peter the Great, who President Vladimir ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russia did not plan to close "the window" to Europe which Tsar Peter the Great sought to open 300 years ago even though the West has imposed the most onerous ...

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.

Abraham Jansz. Storck Tsar Peter the Great and his companions cruising off the Dutch coast in his boier 56.5 x 69.8 cm. (22.2 x 27.5 in.) Medium oil on canvas Size 56.5 x 69.8 cm. (22.2 x 27.5 in.) ...