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1672–1725
Peter the Great, Russian: Пётр I, Pyotr Alexeyevich
Peter the Great · 俄罗斯
1672–1725, Tsar of Russia (1682–1721) and first Emperor (1721–1725), a reformer.
Born in Moscow, he took personal rule in 1689 and sole power from 1696; in 1697–1698 he travelled to Western Europe and worked and studied in Dutch shipyards; in the Great Northern War of 1700–1721 he defeated Sweden and won an outlet to the sea, founded Saint Petersburg on the Neva in 1703, and moved the capital there in 1712; he pursued reforms of the army, government, industry, and education, and in 1724 founded the Russian Academy of Sciences and the predecessor institution of Saint Petersburg University; he died in Saint Petersburg in 1725.
People & stories
Places in their life
Born in Moscow; places of activity and burial association Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
People
Cultural significance
A symbol of transforming Russia from an inland tsardom into a European empire and a "window to the West"; Saint Petersburg itself is the most visible legacy of his reforms.