Peter the Great (1672-1725)

[An Ard Ri]

Peter the Great (1672-1725)

On this day 1709 the Battle of Poltava.

Poltava: The Battle that Changed the World | History Today

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Peter's childhood toughened him up for life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm9lVRcx4Ok

 

[victor1319]

Liberators and Losers...

The narrative of the backward Russia was always a popular one - by the wannabe conquerors:

Napoleon wanted to free the serfs, Hitler the Russians from Bolshevism... well, we know, how it ended!

One should not forget, that Russia had amassed the biggest part of this planet long before Peter the Great!

 

[Al_bina]

From 30 May to 24 September 2017, this exhibition will be dedicated to the stay of Peter the Great in Paris and at the Palace of Versailles in May and June 1717, celebrating the tercentenary of his trip in France.

Thanks to a partnership between the Palace of Versailles and the State Hermitage Museum in St-Petersburg, the exhibition will present what was one of the major diplomatic and cultural event at the beginning of Louis XV's reign only two years after Louis XIV's death.

Peter the Great, a Tsar in France. 1717 | Palace of Versailles

The 300th Anniversary of Peter's I visit to Paris - Culture Gazette
https://www.rbth.com/news/2017/02/0...-anniversary-of-peter-the-greats-visit_698763

President Putin may visit France to inaugurate the exhibition on May 29.

UPDATE
Vladimir Putin will visit Paris on May 29 |President of Russia

The President will visit Paris on May 29 at the invitation of President of France Emmanuel Macron.
The two presidents will open an exhibition organised by the State Hermitage at the Grand Trianon at the Palace of Versailles. The exhibition is devoted to the 300th anniversary of Peter the Great’s visit to France, which laid the foundations for lasting ties between the two countries.

 

[eya]

What exactly did Peter the Great bring back to Russia from Amsterdam, Vienna and other European cities?

https://www.rbth.com/politics_and_s...that-peter-the-great-brought-to-russia_827666

 

[An Ard Ri]

Interesting article on Peter the Great, a Tsar who Loved Science ...and travel!

https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/peter...l&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Tsar Peter I received the deputation of the Streltsi at the Troitsa Monastery.
http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-ts...ry-receivingv-the-deputations-of-7675577.html

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Tsar Peter I endeavored to stop arranged marriages. This affected him personally as his owned arranged marriage to Eudoxia Lopukhina was disastrous.

 

[CyrilVladisla]

When did Tsar Peter I name his own successor to the throne?

 

[An Ard Ri]

He had his second wife Catherine crowned in 1724 and she succeeded him as Empress from 1725 until her death.

 

[Blog Real]

Diamond order of Peter the Great.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Peter_order.jpg

Monument to Peter the Great in St. Petersburg.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Sankt_Petersburg_Peter_der_Grosse_2005_a.jpg

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Tsarevich Alexis Petrovich was interrogated by his father Tsar Peter I.
http://www.gettyimages.com/license/1144559442

 

[An Ard Ri]

Tsarevich Alexis Petrovich was interrogated by his father Tsar Peter I.
http://www.gettyimages.com/license/1144559442

He later had the Tsarevich lashed and executed!

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Tsar Peter I watching English shipbuilders in Deptford
http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-peter-the-great-90858490.html

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Tsar Peter I lays the groundwork for a new Russian military and method of war.
Peter built his log house in three days. He had St. Petersburg built.

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Empress Catherine I of Russia had previously been a servant girl.

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Tsar Peter I helped with the construction of an East Indiaman ship. The ship was appropriately named Peter and Paul.

 

[CyrilVladisla]

Tsar Peter I watching the procedure of the House of Lords
http://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/XJ108785

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[CyrilVladisla]

In 1697/1698 Tsar Peter I became a shipwright.

Mary Evans Peter I Alexeyevich the Great, 9.6.1672 - 8.2.1725, 10449442

 

[Blog Real]

Peter the Great visited France in 1717.

Visit from Peter the Great, 1717

Peter the Great (1672-1725) was heir of the Romanov dynasty and had already been governing Russia for 28 years when he visited France in 1717. A great reformer, in the first few years of his reign he had travelled across Europe looking for inspiration for his grand projects, but France had...

en.chateauversailles.fr

 

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Diamond order of Peter the Great

Did more Russian monarchs have orders like this?

 

[Blog Real]

Peter the Great had two wives, with whom he had fifteen children, three of whom survived to adulthood.

Tsarina Eudoxia Fyodorovna Lopukhina (9 August 1669 – 7 September 1731) was the first wife of Peter I the Great, and the last ethnic Russian and non-foreign wife of a Russian monarch.
Eudoxia was born to Feodor Abramovich Lopukhin and Ustinia Bogdanovna Rtishcheva, making her a member of the Lopukhin family and a noble.
More information: Eudoxia Lopukhina - Wikipedia

Later Peter the Great married Catherine I of Russia.