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Peter the Great
- The Reign and Accomplishments of the Russian Tsar Pyotr Alekseevich
- Narrated by: Doug Greene
- Length: 37 mins
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Summary
From May 7, 1682 till his death in 1725, Peter the Great or Pyotr Alekséyevich governed the Tsardom of Russia, and ultimately the Russian Empire, collectively ruling before 1696 with his older half-brother, Ivan V.
He got ports on the Azov and Baltic Seas through a series of triumphant disputes, created the structure for the Imperial Russian Navy, ended undisputed Swedish control in the Baltic, and launched the Tsardom's development into a much larger empire that would end up being a major European force. He was the leader of a cultural revolution that saw some standard and Middle Ages social and political structures changed with modern-day, clinical, Westernized, and Enlightenment-based systems. Peter's reforms had a long-lasting effect on Russia, and tons of the Russian federal government's organizations can be traced back to his reign. In 1721, he changed the former title of Tsar to the title of Emperor, and he created and broadened the city of Saint Petersburg, which stayed Russia's capital till 1917.
Peter the Great has had a significance influence on the structure of Russia, its history, and its future in the succeeding decades after him. Let’s see what else he did while he was alive.