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Three centuries without Peter the Great, the mirror in which Putin looks: "He has no other history to talk about than the Russian Empire"
But, above all, it shifted the center of power in northern Europe from Stockholm to St. Petersburg and turned Russia into an empire, with its tsar, Peter the Great, becoming its first emperor.
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Putin praises Peter the Great’s role in building Russian state
The exposition, dubbed ‘Peter the Great. The Birth of Empire,’ is designed in the form of an immersive biography performance MOSCOW, June 9. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has ...