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Three centuries without Peter the Great, the mirror in which Putin looks: "He has no other history to talk about than the Russian Empire"
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.
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Putin praises Peter the Great’s role in building Russian state
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 ...
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The true story behind the mysterious prisoner in 'Catherine the Great' is incredibly tragic
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 ...
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Ukrainian museum moves to 'decolonise' history
The sleepy city, around 350 kilometres (220 miles) east of Kyiv, was the scene of a decisive June 1709 battle when the forces ...
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Putin names Pushkin, Peter the Great among Russia’s national heroes
"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 ...
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Nuclear powered “Peter the Great” en route to Venezuela
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 ...