NOUN
- czar of Russia who introduced ideas from western Europe to reform the government; he extended his territories in the Baltic and founded St. Petersburg (1682-1725)
How To Use Peter the Great In A Sentence
- Under Peter the Great, the Romanov tsar who ruled from 1682 to 1725, Russia began a period of imperial expansion that continued into the Soviet period.
- In short, you can definitely image Peter the Great living there in the summer.
- As for Peter the Great, he might also have been akin to Edward II insofar as he was not afraid to indulge in manual occupations.
- Peter the Great greatly restricted access to monastic tonsure, thereby virtually barring the nobility from entering the black clergy.
- This is a long-term trend in European civilization which began with Peter the Great, and which took off in 1877 with the work of Mendeleyev in building the transcontinental railway.
- Peter the Great at once commissioned it from Danzig masters and presented it to her with a laudatory poem that glorified her military exploits.
- Despite the eighteenth - century efforts of Peter the Great to introduce westernizing corruptions, Dostoevsky believed in the fundamental religious and social integrity of Holy Russia.
- Peter the Great decreed it should be a naval base.
- He himself admires Peter the Great, the legendary but tyrannical transformer of 18th-century Russia.
- Chubarov, in an Instructive and thoughtful book, presents the whole panorama of Russian history from the reforms of Peter the Great to the shock therapy of Egor Gaidar and Boris Yeltsin.
