This leader led a campaign against uneven tombstones, and saw a month where his son and grandson were both born with his name.
This leader led a campaign against uneven tombstones, and saw a month where his son and grandson were both born with his name. Thirty years before Portugal, he was the earliest to expel Jesuits from his country.  He imposed heavy fines on senators who missed their duties or talked idly while senate was in progress, and established the General Procurer position to oversee both the senate and the fiskaly, a group of men who were paid to uncover corruption. This leader adopted (*) 14 classes of hierarchy in a system that favored military and civil ability over congenital status, his Table of Ranks. Also, he massively industrialized his nation without the use of foreign capital. For 10 points, name this westernizing ruler who excised a beard tax on the boyars and defeated Charles XII of Sweden in the Great Northern War, a Russian tsar who was succeeded by Catherine the Great.
This leader led a campaign against uneven tombstones, and saw a month where his son and grandson were both born with his name.
Peter the Great [or Peter I; or Pyotr Alekseyevich; or  Pyotr Veliky; prompt Peter or Pyotr] 