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 ...

But, as the offspring of Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna Romanova (the eldest daughter of Tsar Peter I the Great), who was orphaned when he was eleven years old, he ended up becoming the heir to the ...

If he wins again, and he serves his full six-year term, he will have been in power for 30 years, longer than any Russian or Soviet leader since Tsar Peter the Great (who died in 1721). Viable ...

Andrei Zorin is a cultural historian and chair of Russian at the University of Oxford. In a recent interview with Vazha Tavberidze of RFE/RL Georgian Service, Zorin discusses whether Russian ...

In 1745, when she was 16, she married. Seventeen years later, Peter III finally became tsar of Russia. Horseback riding was one of Catherine the Great's favorite pastimes. Photograph by Sovfoto ...

Karl Peter Ulrich—the only surviving grandson of Tsar Peter I, better known as Peter the Great. Attuned to the whisperings of court gossip, Sophie overheard that the child duke was hotheaded and ...

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Tsar Peter the Great struggled to repel the formidable forces of Charles XII of Sweden, advancing on Moscow. Then came the Great Frost of 1708–9. Birds were ...

Olivia Durand receives funding from Freie Universität Berlin where she is a fellow. Vladimir Putin’s recent evocation of the military successes of 18th-century tsar Peter the Great against ...

Vladimir Putin’s recent evocation of the military successes of 18th-century tsar Peter the Great against Sweden is just the latest example of his distinctive cherry-picking of imperial predecessors, ...

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 ...

These were, of course Peter the Great and his successor Catherine the ... He was the grandson of the founder of the Romanov dynasty, Tsar Michael, and the son of Michael’s successor, Tsar ...