Any understanding of modern Russia really must go back 200 years to Peter the Great. More specifically, to his travels to the West from which he brought back to his motherland feats of science ...

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 ...

The Russian president stated: "Peter the Great fought the Great Northern War for 21 years. At first glance, he was at war with Sweden to seize something. But that was not the case, ...

While Mr. Putin’s proclaimed role model, Peter the Great, saw the great advantage to his own people of commercial and educational exchanges with the West, Mr. Putin, who fears democracy more ...

A vessel touted as Russia's first modern cruise liner but hit by repeated delays has been sent back to the shipyard for more work. Construction began on Pyotr Velikiy (Peter the Great) in 2016 at ...

The warship, dubbed Peter the Great after Russia’s first emperor, was launched in 1998 and served as the flagship of the Russian Navy until its decommissioning this year.

Peter the Great became the tsar of Russia — the monarch — in 1682 and ruled as emperor from 1721 until his death in 1725. According to the provincial conservation office in Poland, ...

Over three seasons as Catherine the Great and Peter III of Russia, the actors tangled with love, treachery and the rule of a nation. 'The Great' stars take us behind the scenes - Los Angeles Times ...