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 ...

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.

But, above all, it shifted the center of power in northern Europe from Stockholm to St. Petersburg and turned Russia into an ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin directly compared himself to Czar Peter the Great on Thursday in his latest remarks justifying the invasion of Ukraine. Putin said that when Peter the Great ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He has been evoking World War II and his idol, Russian tsar Peter the Great. Putin, according to a New York Times report in 2002, has a portrait of Peter hanging in his Kremlin office. Russia rena ...

when Peter the Great met Charles XII, and the power of the Swedes in Russia was crushed, was opened here this morning in the presence of the Czar and an imposing suite of Grand Dukes and foreign ...

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 ...

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.