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.

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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 Putin has held up as an ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...