Since then, the country has fended ... With an education that spanned both Russian and European history, Peter the Great is noted today for his military prowess and his integration of Russia ...

Even his early biographies, like the one Voltaire wrote about him in History of the Russian Empire under the reign of Peter ...

President Vladimir Putin, who has often invoked history to stoke nationalist sentiments, compared himself to Peter the Great ... that have withdrawn from Russia since late February would ...

But perhaps there is another lesson from the history books. Peter the Great did eventually conquer land from the Baltics to the Black Sea. But Russia was fighting its Great Northern War for 21 years.

Czar Peter the Great of Russia casts a long shadow over history. A giant of a man ... country than pretty much any other ruler before or since. But who was Peter the Great as a man, a father ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday compared himself to the country’s first emperor, Peter the Great, in a speech ... Russia’s invasion of Ukraine since the Feb. 24 beginning of the ...

If he wins again, and he serves his full six-year term, he will have been in power for 30 years, longer than any Russian or Soviet leader since Tsar Peter the Great (who died in 1721). Viable ...

His allusions to the era of Peter I and Catherine II are shallow, upbeat, and focused on what academics call the great man history ... recognized this territory as Russia. Everyone claimed it was ...

MOSCOW (REUTERS) - Russian President ... by propounding a view of history that asserts Ukraine has no real national identity or tradition of statehood. Peter the Great, an autocratic moderniser ...

A portrait of Catherine the Great in her coronation robe after wresting the throne from her husband, Peter III ... Those questions have raged since the Russian Empress’s 18th-century reign.

Ekaterina Dashkova would have been a footnote in history, remembered merely as the younger sister of the mistress of Peter III, the Russian czar deposed by his better-known wife, Catherine the Great.