The author of literary classics such as Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades, Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837), is ...

Originally built by Peter the Great, this fortress includes the burial ground for many Romanovs, from Peter himself to Alexander III. At the heart of the fortress is the soaring Peter and Paul ...

The story of the meeting between Tsar Peter the Great and a common soldier, who turned out to be the full namesake of the Sovereign Emperor, and even a countryman. Not recognizing the tsar ...

The last tsar of the previous dynasty ... and son followed father generation after generation until Peter the Great took the title of emperor and declared that his wife Catherine I would succeed ...

grandson of Peter the Great and heir to the Russian throne. The marriage was unhappy, but the couple did produce one son, Paul. In 1762 Catherine's husband became Tsar Peter III but he was soon ...