But, above all, it shifted the center of power in northern Europe from Stockholm to St. Petersburg and turned Russia into an empire, with its tsar, Peter the Great, becoming its first emperor.

The exposition, dubbed ‘Peter the Great. The Birth of Empire,’ is designed in the form of an immersive biography performance MOSCOW, June 9. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has ...

Most of that can be chalked up to the family drama of Peter The Great, who is mentioned a lot in Catherine the Great as the iconic ruler who founded St. Petersburg and brought Russia into a new ...

"We have much to be proud of, we have many heroes," the president believes ST. PETERSBURG, June 6. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that there were many heroes in Russia’s ...

In 1745, after being received into the Russian Orthodox Church, and changing her name to Catherine, she married Grand Duke Peter, grandson of Peter the Great and heir to the Russian throne.

The fleet is made up of "the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser Pyotr Veliky (Peter the Great), the anti-submarine warship Admiral Chebanenko and other accompanying ships" said Russian Navy ...

A monument to the Russian Emperor Peter the Great has been dismantled in Poltava in accordance with Ukrainian law and in compliance with all the required procedures. Source: acting Mayor of Poltava ...

Upon returning to Moscow from his Grand Embassy around Europe in 1698, Tsar Peter the Great of Russia produced a long barber’s razor from his pocket and began personally shaving off the beards ...