Czar Peter the Great of Russia casts a long shadow over history. A giant of a man, with appetites for learning and adventure to match, he did more to modernize his country than pretty much any ...

"He did not have an entirely bad heart," Catherine the Great wrote of her wastrel husband, Czar Peter III, "but a weak man usually does not." That was her nice way of saying he was pitiable as ...

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 ...

Peter the Great, having become Tsar of Russia, using his shipbuilding knowledge acquired in a foreign country to establish a navy, and being able to use it, provokes a war with Sweden, defeating ...

The dazzling construction of golden resin, gifted to Russian Tsar Peter the Great, was looted by German troops in the 1940s. It was never seen again, and after numerous searches from international ...

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 ...

Throughout his reign, Tsar Peter the Great of Russia sought to modernize his country and increase Russia’s prestige on the ...

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 ...