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.

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 ...

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

Peter the Great's Secret Will; Instructions to His Successors Concerning Methods to Be Followed to Make Russia a World Empire. Share full article Feb. 21, 1904 Credit... The New York Times ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.