This seemingly modest object is a national shrine associated with the young tsar Peter I, his personal boat from a flotilla built during 1689-92 on Pleshcheyevo Lake. My photographs were taken ...

Peter the Great visited the West twice during his lifetime. ... 7-year-old King Louis XV and the Tsar during Peter the Great's visit toFrance on May 10, 1717.

Vladimir Putin likened himself to the revered 17th century tsar, and drew parallels between his invasion of Ukraine and Peter the Great's quest to "reclaim" Russian lands from neighboring countries.

Putin said Peter the Great's 18th century war with Sweden was to "return" land that was rightfully Russia's and compared it to his actions in Ukraine.

DEATH OF THE CZAR.; THE DESCENDANT OF PETER THE GREAT HAS PASSED AWAY. His Death Is a Solemn Warning to Hundreds of Men and Women Who Are Alive To-day -- Uneasiness in Europe.

Putin compared his actions in Ukraine to those of Peter the Great, Russia's first emperor. He said when the czar was at war with Sweden in the 18th century the land was rightfully Russia's.

It is named for Czar Peter the Great, who ruled Russia from 1682 to 1725. In 1984, the Soviet Union claimed the bay as its internal waters by drawing a 106-nautical mile closing line along its coasts.

The great Russian tsar and reformer was an ardent admirer of female beauty, yet even ... They reconciled only shortly before the tsar's death. It is believed that Peter died in her arms.

The statue of Russian czar Peter the Great is unveiled by the permanent secretary of the Academy of Sciences Helene Carrere d'Encausse, left, Russian ambassador to France Alexander Orlov, center ...

The czar looks wounded. “Peter the Great, I mean,” she adds, at which point he looks relieved. Which he ought not be: Catherine was probably born great. She will certainly achieve greatness.

Second, noting that just as ship building was the key to power in the 18th century, space travel serves much the same purpose in the 21st, Czar Peter would suggest to Putin to do as he did, seek ...