Peter the Great's modest summer residence and a lovely old park with marble sculptures ...

THE PERSONALITY OF PETER More than in any other period of Russian history or the history of any other country, the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth centuries was a era of great events and changes for which a single man was mostly responsible. To posterity Peter seems like a superhuman colossus bestriding half a continent. To contemporaries he seemed much the same. He is ...

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6. Peter the Great Sources 1. Sophia, Regent of Russia 1657 - 1704 Lindsey Hughes Yale University Press 1990 DK 125 H84 1990 2.Peter, The Revolutionary Tsar Peter Brock Putnam Harper & Row, 1973 DK 131 P88 1973 c.1 3.Pierre le Grand Henri Troyat Flammarion, 1979 DK 131 T76 1979 4. Peter The Great: His Life and World Robert K. Massie Alfred A. Knopf, 1980 DK 131 M28 5. Life on the Russian Country ...

Peter I (The Great) 1689-1725 Peter I, was born to Alexis Romanov and his second wife Natalia Naryshkina. Peter grew up in a turbulent period of Russian history. His fathers early death at the age of thirty-one left a bitter struggle for power between the family of Alexiss first wifes family, the Miloslavskaias, and Peters family. A brief period of reign by Peters half brother Fedor (1676-1682) ...

Tell me when this page is updated This story published 08/30/99 Written by Ursula Grosser Dixon Russia's Reforming Tsar: Peter the Great Childhood Tsar Alexis, having lost his first wife in childbirth, took a second wife, Natalya on February 1, 1671. The joy was great when on May 30, 1672 they became parents of a large, apparently healthy boy. They called him Peter after the apostle. He was born ...