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 ...

Monument to Peter the Great. View from park, with text of Peter's order ... Between 1903 and 1916 he traveled through the Russian Empire and took over 2,000 photographs with the process, ...

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 ...

But for all of his focus on Peter, Putin’s favorite topic is the fifteen years between 1768 and 1783 when Russia defeated the Ottoman Empire, stripped it of the Crimean Khanate, and annexed Crimea.

How Catherine really became 'The Great' Once the upstart foreigner stole Russia’s throne, there was no stopping her enlightened reforms, her empire's expansion, and her pursuit of love and legacy.

Pope Francis has come under fire after he encouraged Russian youths not to give up their “legacy” as heirs of a “great, enlightened Russian empire.” “Never give up this legacy, you are the heirs of ...