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 ...

LONDON — President Vladimir Putin has compared himself to Peter the Great, saying he shares the 18th-century czar's goal of returning "Russian lands" to a greater empire. Speaking after visiting ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has compared himself to Peter the Great, comparing his invasion of Ukraine to the czar’s quest to “reclaim” Russian lands from neighboring countries.

“And the man who made Russia into an imperial empire was Peter the Great.” The czar will “live as long as his cause is alive,” Putin told Britain’s Financial Times newspaper in a 2019 ...

June 9 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin paid tribute on Thursday to Tsar Peter the Great on the 350th anniversary of his birth, drawing a parallel between what he portrayed as their ...

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.

In a recent speech to young entrepreneurs in St. Petersburg, Russian President Vladimir Putin compared himself to Czar Peter the Great. In the speech, celebrating the 350th anniversary of his ...

Peter the Great, though a ruthless autocrat ... Holland or Greenwich in search of ideas and inspiration, as the Tsar once did, now seems impossible. As Putin lectured the young entrepreneurs ...

After visiting an exhibition in Moscow dedicated to the 350th birthday of the tsar, Putin drew parallels between Peter the Great’s founding of St Petersburg and modern-day Russia’s ambitions.

In one exchange, he invoked the great legacy of Russian czar Peter the Great, who he said defeated the Swedes at the Battle of Poltava in the Seven Years’ War against Sweden in 1709. Except that ...