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Even his early biographies, like the one Voltaire wrote about him in History of the Russian Empire under the reign of Peter ...
Peter the Great's Secret Will; Instructions to His Successors Concerning Methods to Be Followed to Make Russia a World Empire. Share full article. Feb. 21, 1904.
TROTTING AT EMPIRE TRACK; J. Malcolm Forbes's Peter the Great Wins the $5,000 Stake. TOBOGGAN TAKES 2:25 PACE Four Heats Are Required to Decide the 2:18 Trot, and Result in Closest Finishes of the ...
MR. SCHUYLER’S Peter the Great, 1 which has finally appeared, is equally creditable to American typographical art and to American historical scholarship. A strict criticism might indeed complain ...
THE political testament of Peter the Great, the true founder of the great Russian Empire, is a unique and remarkable document. It is but little known, except to diplomatists, and is, at the ...
A portrait of Czar Peter I, painted in 1717. Mondadori Portfolio / via Getty Images file. Peter the First, or Peter the Great, is credited with expanding Russia into an empire and a major European ...
Czar Peter the Great (1672-1725) knew that the Arctic, frozen solid for seven plus months of the year, could not be the coastline on which Russia would build its fleet. That is changing , fast.
Putin, whose hometown of St. Petersburg bears the czar’s name, praised Peter’s empire building and suggested that land taken by the czar rightfully belonged to Russia.
You are the descendants of great Russia: the great Russia of saints, rulers, the great Russia of Peter I, Catherine II, that empire — educated, great culture and great humanity," he told them in ...