Peter the Great, Russian emperor (died 1725)

Peter the Great

Tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1725

Peter I, better known as Peter the Great, was the Tsar of all Russia from 1682 and the first Emperor of all Russia from 1721 until his death in 1725. He reigned jointly with his half-brother Ivan V until 1696. From this year, Peter was an absolute monarch, an autocrat who…