Peter the Great | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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Peter the Great


00:01:19 1 Title
00:02:16 2 Life
00:02:24 2.1 Early years
00:07:20 2.2 Early reign
00:09:21 2.3 Grand Embassy
00:14:26 2.4 Great Northern War
00:19:34 2.5 Later years
00:24:06 2.6 Religion
00:25:44 3 Marriages and family
00:27:59 3.1 Issue
00:28:17 3.2 Death
00:30:06 3.3 Ancestors
00:30:14 4 Popular culture
00:32:14 5 See also
00:32:55 6 Notes
00:33:04 6.1 Footnotes



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Peter the Great (Russian: Пётр Вели́кий, tr. Pyotr Velikiy, IPA: [ˈpʲɵtr vʲɪˈlʲikʲɪj]), Peter I (Russian: Пётр I, tr. Pyotr I, IPA: [ˈpʲɵtr ˈpʲɛrvɨj]) or Peter Alexeyevich (Russian: Пётр Алексе́евич, IPA: [ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ]; 9 June [O.S. 30 May] 1672 – 8 February [O.S. 28 January] 1725) ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 7 May [O.S. 27 April] 1682 until his death in 1725, jointly ruling before 1696 with his elder half-brother, Ivan V. Through a number of successful wars, he expanded the Tsardom into a much larger empire that became a major European power and also laid the groundwork for the Russian navy after capturing ports at Azov and the Baltic Sea. He led a cultural revolution that replaced some of the traditionalist and medieval social and political systems with ones that were modern, scientific, Westernised and based on the Enlightenment. Peter's reforms made a lasting impact on Russia, and many institutions of Russian government trace their origins to his reign. He is also known for founding and developing the city of Saint Petersburg, which remained the capital of Russia until 1917.