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Peter I (Alekseevich)


(1672 - 1725)



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Peter Alekseevich Romanov was certainly the greatest reformist in the Royal family. Sharing the throne for a number of years with his brother Ivan, young tsar merely escaped death in a row of several attempts to assasinate him by his older sister Sophia. Beginning roughly from 1700, Peter, the First established himself as the biggest power in the Eastern Europe, successfully defeating Sweden king Charles XII in the 1721. Consequently, the vital access to the Baltic and Black Seas had been established. Besides the fact that Russia transformed into an Empire, it gained a powerful army, navy and a new capital St.Petersburg.



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