Any understanding of modern Russia really must go back 200 years to Peter the Great. More specifically, to his travels to the West from which he brought back to his motherland feats of science ...

To assemble a list of every Russian (and Soviet) head of state – and de facto ruler – since Peter I (known as Peter the Great) first took office as tsar 340 years ago, 24/7 Wall St. consulted ...

From an early age Peter was fascinated by shipbuilding and sailing, and always had ambitions of making Russia a major maritime power. When Peter became the sole ruler of Russia in 1696, the ...

On September 10, 1721, the peace treaty that ended the Great Northern War was signed in the Finnish city of Nystad, which for two decades pitted the Russian Tsardom against the Swedish Empire.

It is named for Czar Peter the Great, who ruled Russia from 1682 to 1725. In 1984, the Soviet Union claimed the bay as its internal waters by drawing a 106-nautical mile closing line along its coasts.

Putin said that when Peter the Great, the first emperor of Russia, waged war against Sweden in the 1700s, he was not conquering but returning land that rightfully belonged to Russia. Putin ...

On the shore of Pleshcheyevo Lake, midway between Moscow and Yaroslavl on the Volga River, sits the estate of Veskovo. In 1911, the Russian photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky made the journey to ...

Catherine the Great's Husband Peter III Ruled Over Russia—Until He Didn't. ... His aunt, Russian Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, adopted Peter at age 14 and named him her heir.