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Peter the Great. The government reforms of Peter I aimed to modernize the Tsardom of Russia (later the Russian Empire) based on Western European models. Peter ascended to the throne at the age of 10 in 1682; he ruled jointly with his half-brother Ivan V. After Ivan's death in 1696, Peter started his series of sweeping reforms.
Peter I (Russian: Пётр I Алексеевич, romanized: Pyotr I Alekseyevich, IPA: [ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪkˈsʲejɪvʲɪtɕ]; 9 June [O.S. 30 May] 1672 – 8 February [O.S. 28 January] 1725), known as Peter the Great, [note 1] was the Tsar of all Russia from 1682 and the first Emperor of all Russia from 1721 until his death in 1725.
Joseph Warren † an American physician who played a leading role in American Patriot organizations in Boston in the early days of the American Revolution, eventually serving as President of the revolutionary Massachusetts Provincial Congress. Warren enlisted Paul Revere and William Dawes on April 18, 1775, to leave Boston and spread the alarm ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 December 2024. American blacksmith and soldier (1760–1831) This article is about the American blacksmith and soldier. For the South African snooker player, see Peter Francisco (snooker player). Peter Francisco Miniature portrait of Francisco Born Pedro Francisco (1760-07-09) July 9, 1760 Porto Judeu ...
The Petrine Revolution in Russian Imagery. University of Chicago Press, 1997. The Revolution of Peter the Great. Harvard University Press, 2003. Architectures of Russian Identity: 1500 to the Present. Cornell University Press, 2003. (Co-editor with Daniel Rowland, joint author.) The Petrine Revolution in Russian Culture. The Belknap Press of ...
The Staten Island Peace Conference was a brief informal diplomatic conference held between representatives of the British Crown and its rebellious North American colonies in the hope of bringing a rapid end to the nascent American Revolution.
The army was created by the Russian Tsar Peter I on the basis of the Zheldaks (Russian: Желдаки), later called by historians, that began to appear in Russia during the reign of his father, regiments of the new (foreign) system, Streltsy army and Cossacks, taking into account the latest European achievements in the field of military art.
Peter the Great temporarily annexed several areas of Iran to Russia, which after the death of Peter were returned in the 1732 Treaty of Resht and 1735 Treaty of Ganja as a deal to oppose the Ottomans. [38] Peter reorganized his government based on the latest political models of the time, molding Russia into an absolutist state.