* 1669 – Eudoxia Lopukhina, Russian wife of Peter the Great ( d. 1731 )

Statue of Peter the Great leaning on an anchor, in symbol of his shipbuilding activity ( Voronezh, 1860 ).

It was in this reign that an important change in the government of the Danubian Principalities was introduced: previously, the Porte had appointed Hospodars, usually native Moldavian and Wallachian boyars, to administer those provinces ; after the Russian campaign of 1711, during which Peter the Great found an ally in Moldavia Prince Dimitrie Cantemir, the Porte began overtly deputizing Phanariote Greeks in that region, and extended the system to Wallachia after Prince Stefan Cantacuzino established links with Eugene of Savoy.

The young Alexei was brought up by his mother, who fostered an atmosphere of disdain towards Peter the Great, Alexei's father.

From the ages of 6 to 9, Alexei was educated by his tutor Vyazemsky, but after the removal of his mother by Peter the Great to the Suzdal Intercession Convent, Alexei was confined to the care of educated foreigners, who taught him history, geography, mathematics and French.

That the emperor sincerely sympathized with Alexei, and suspected Peter of harbouring murderous designs against his son, is plain from his confidential letter to George I of Great Britain, whom he consulted on this delicate affair.

* Matthew S. Anderson, Peter the Great ( London: Thames and Hudson, 1978 ).

* Robert K. Massie, Peter the Great, His Life and World ( New York: Ballantine, 1981 ).

Sumner, Peter the Great and the Emergence of Russia ( London: English UP, 1968 ).

* Lindsey Hughes, Russia in the Age of Peter the Great ( New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998 ).

Historical mixed media figure of Alfred the Great produced by artist / historian George S. Stuart and photographed by Peter d ' Aprix.

The system was used in Russia as late as the early 18th century when Peter the Great replaced it with Arabic numerals.

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When Peter the Great went to Holland in 1716 ( he was in Holland before in 1697 to instruct himself in maritime affairs ), he also took lessons from Boerhaave.

In Russia, the first census of the tax-payers was made in 1722-1723 by the order of Peter the Great ( only men were counted ), and was ordered to be repeated every twenty years.

File: Peterthegreategg. JPG | The Peter the Great Egg, commissioned by Czar Alexander III as an Easter surprise for his wife.

* 1728 – Tsar Peter III of Russia, husband of Catherine the Great ( d. 1762 )

Peter the Great ( 1672 – 1725 ) brought autocracy into Russia and played a major role in bringing his country into the European state system.

Peter the Great leading the Russian army in the Battle of Poltava

Peter the Great died in 1725, leaving an unsettled succession.

She contributed to the resurgence of the Russian nobility that began after the death of Peter the Great.

But the revolt was easily crushed, leading Nicholas to turn away from the Westernization program begun by Peter the Great and champion the doctrine " Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality ".

* 1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree.

* 1709 – Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.

* 1709 – Great Northern War: Battle of Poltava – Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava thus effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe.

Peter I was succeeded by his second wife ( Catherine I, 1725 – 1728 ) who was merely a figure-head for a powerful group of high officials, then by his minor grandson ( Peter II, 1728 – 1730 ), then by his niece, Anna, daughter of Tsar Ivan V. In 1741 Elizabeth, daughter of Peter, seized the throne, assisted by the Preobrazhensky Regiment.

* 1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication, interdiction, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse against Venice, which had unjustly seized on Ferrara, a fief of the Patrimony of Peter.

They have seized the very means set aside to furnish funds for the lights ever kept burning at St. Peter s tomb, and they have carried off offerings that have been made by you and by those who have gone before you.

By the time the Antipope Christopher ( 903 – 904 ) seized the chair of Saint Peter by force, circumstances had changed at Rome, with the rise of the magister militum Theophylact, Count of Tusculum, who had been stationed at Rome by the retreating emperor Louis the Blind in 902.

Army General Dušan Simović seized power, arrested the Vienna delegation, exiled Paul, and ended the regency, giving 17-year-old King Peter full powers.

Soon after Sweden opened the Second Northern War in the Baltic by attacking the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Dutch moved to take advantage and an armed squadron of ships under the direction of Director-General Peter Stuyvesant seized New Sweden.

On March 27, the regime was overthrown by a military coup d ' état with British support, and the 17-year old King Peter II of Yugoslavia seized power.

The rebels seized Belgrade and proclaimed Peter " Emperor of Bulgaria ".

Peter not only refused, but declared war and seized Majorca and Roussillon in 1344.

The Duke of Holstein-Gottorp became emperor of Russia in 1762 as Peter III and was planning an attack on Denmark to recover the Holstein-Gottorp lands possessions in Schleswig, which were seized by the Danish king in 1713.

Due to Swedish inaction Russians seized the initiative and struck first with army of 16 000 men under Field-Marshal Peter Lacy advanced from Vyborg (, ) towards Villmanstrand () and using nearly four fold superiority in numbers inflicted a major defeat on the Swedish garrison led by General Carl Henrik Wrangel.

The government also provided a $ 55 million guarantee — in addition to a $ 20 million loan — to Peter Pocklington's Gainers meat-packing plant ; when Pocklington defaulted on the loan, the government seized, and eventually closed, the plant.

After dining with his old friend Sir Peter Thompson, Ames was seized with an attack that brought about his death that evening, 7 October 1759, in the seventy-first year of his life.

In the spring of 1556 he visited Brussels to see his wife ; on his way back, between Brussels and Antwerp, he and Sir Peter Carew were seized ( 15 May ) by order of Philip II of Spain, taken to England, and imprisoned in the Tower.

Trzebnica itself was first mentioned in a 1138 deed, then held by the Polish voivode Peter Wlast and later seized by the Silesian duke Władysław II the Exile.

On June 19, the Russian Don Army ( 28, 000 men ) under the command of General Peter Lacy with the support from the Don Flotilla under the command of Vice Admiral Peter Bredahl seized the fortress of Azov.

In 1263 he along with other Marcher Lords arrested Peter of Aigueblanche, Bishop of Hertford, and seized Hereford, Gloucester, and Bristol, returning south to assault Windsor Castle.

The lab in Kent, and a flat in London were raided simultaneously and quantities of equipment and LSD seized along with the two men who had been making the LSD ; Quentin Theobald and Peter Simmons.

He quarrelled with King Louis VII, who seized Renaud's French possessions and gave them along with Renaud's daughter Elizabeth to his youngest brother, Pierre ( Peter of France, who thenceforth became known as Peter of Courtenay ( d. 1183 )).

Soon after Sweden opened the Second Northern War in the Baltic by attacking the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Dutch moved to take advantage, and between September 11 – 15, 1655 an armed squadron of ships under the direction of Director-General Peter Stuyvesant seized New Sweden.