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But even those royals might have been aghast at the actions of Russian czar Peter the Great, who in 1718 had his eldest son tortured to death for allegedly conspiring against him. Peter I, better ...
In the 1950s the newspaper 'Soviet Fisherman' published Korelsky’s memoirs in which he claimed that he had seen a document suggesting that Lomonosov was the son of tsar Peter. According to this ...
Nov 21, 2016 · Follow Russia Beyond on Pinterest. Exactly 300 years ago, on Nov. 21, 1716, Tsarevich Alexei, who was weak and distanced from his father's views and reforms, asked Austria for political asylum ...
Peter the Great’s son Aleksei, born 1690, was given a European education. With no brothers, he was the heir, though Peter sent his mother to a convent. From 1707 Aleksei participated in court events and in the administration of the state. Foreign courts and Peter sought a bride, and he married Charlotte of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel in 1711.
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Peter the Great. Peter I ([ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪt͡ɕ]; Russian: Пётр I Алексеевич, romanized: Pyotr I Alekseyevich, [note 1]; 9 June [O.S. 30 May] 1672 – 8 February [O.S. 28 January] 1725), was Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia, known as Peter the Great, [note 2] from 1721 until his ...
Oct 2, 2023 · Peter I of Russia (Peter the Great) was the Tsar of Russia from 1682-1721 and Emperor of Russia from 1721-1725.During his long reign, Peter had absolute power and brought real change to Russia, including building its first navy, introducing industrialisation, establishing educational institutions and creating the new Russian capital, St. Petersburg.
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N. G. Ustrialov 1845 1859*. The conflict between Tsar Peter the Great and his son and heir the tsarevich Aleksei is one of the classic stories of Russian history. It is supposed to illustrate the struggle of old and new, of the new European- ized Russia with Old Muscovite conservatism, of culture with obscuran- tism.
