Peter the Great | |||||
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Portrait by Paul Delaroche
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Emperor of All Russia | |||||
Reign | 2 November 1721 – 8 February 1725 |
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Successor | Catherine I | ||||
Tsar of All Russia | |||||
Reign | 7 May 1682 – 2 November 1721 | ||||
Coronation | 25 June 1682 | ||||
Predecessor | Feodor III | ||||
Co-monarch | Ivan V | ||||
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Moscow, Tsardom of Russia |
9 June 1672||||
Died | 8 February 1725 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
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Burial | Peter and Paul Cathedral | ||||
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Issue among others |
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House | Romanov | ||||
Father | Alexis of Russia | ||||
Mother | Natalya Naryshkina | ||||
Religion | Russian Orthodoxy | ||||
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Full name | |
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Peter Alekseyevich Romanov |
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, 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. He led a cultural revolution that replaced some of the traditionalist and medieval social and political systems with ones that were modern, scientific, westernized, 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.
The imperial title of Peter the Great was the following:
By the grace of God, the most excellent and great sovereign prince Pyotr Alekseevich the ruler all the Russias: of Moscow, of Kiev, of Vladimir, of Novgorod, Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan and Tsar of Siberia, sovereign of Pskov, great prince of Smolensk, Tversk, Yugorsk, Permsky, Vyatsky, Bulgarsky and others, sovereign and great prince of Novgorod Nizovsky lands, Chernigovsky, of Ryazan, of Rostov, Yaroslavl, Belozersky, Udorsky, Kondiisky and the sovereign of all the northern lands, and the sovereign of the Iverian lands, of the Kartlian and Georgian Kings, of the Kabardin lands, of the Circassian and Mountain princes and many other states and lands western and eastern here and there and the successor and sovereign and ruler.