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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"
The current occupant of the Kremlin uses the example of the first emperor to justify his policy: "Just like him, today we ...
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Catherine the Great (1729 – 1796)
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 ...
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Peter the Great’s Poltava battleship replica floated out in St. Petersburg
The design was drawn by Czar Peter the Great. The ship took part in the Great Northern War between Russia and Sweden and was operational till 1725 to be disassembled in the 1730s when it went ...
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Peter I: The Last Tsar and the First Emperor
The figure of Emperor Peter the Great, as well as the era of his formation and reign, still excites the minds of people all over the world. The creators answer the questions of how to take the ...
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Peter and Petrusha
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 ...
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A ROMANOV ALBUM
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 ...
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Russia’s engineer troops to receive latest equipment — top brass
The history of Russia’s engineer troops dates back to the time when a regular Russian army was set up and Tsar Peter the Great issued a decree in 1701 on establishing an engineering school ...