* 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.

He likely would have studied under masters such as Peter Abelard, Gilbert of Poitiers and Thierry of Chartres.

Peter would agree but on the condition that Alexei remove himself as a dynastic threat and become a monk.

In 1428, he received a letter from Yeshaq I of Ethiopia, borne by two dignitaries, which proposed an alliance against the Muslims and would be sealed by a dual marriage that would require the Infante Peter to bring a group of artisans to Ethiopia where he would marry Yeshaq's daughter.

Peter Schneider calls such objections untenable on the grounds that if a non-sensory, non-physical realm exists, then according to Steiner the experiences of pure thinking possible within the normal realm of consciousness would already be experiences of that, and it would be impossible to exclude the possibility of empirically grounded experiences of other supersensory content.

Several senior executives from the Compaq side including Jeff Clarke and Peter Blackmore would resign or be ousted from the post-merger HP.

The Guard was later disbanded by Emperor Peter II and would be recreated only later in the republican era.

This Wöhler Myth, as historian of science Peter J. Ramberg called it, originated from a popular history of chemistry published in 1931, which, " ignoring all pretense of historical accuracy, turned Wöhler into a crusader who made attempt after attempt to synthesize a natural product that would refute vitalism and lift the veil of ignorance, until ' one afternoon the miracle happened '".

Hammer would dominate British horror production throughout this period with acclaimed English actors Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee at the forefront, but other companies were created specifically to meet the new demand, including Amicus Productions and Tigon British.

Duane Warden believes that Domitian ’ s unpopularity even among Romans renders it highly unlikely that his actions would have great influence in the provinces, especially those under the direct supervision of the senate such as Asia ( one of the provinces 1 Peter is addressed to ).

They conceived a plan to install a cleric subservient to Peter as bishop of Constantinople so that Alexandria would retain the leadership of the Eastern Churches.

In this way, Ackerman provided inspiration to many who would later become successful artists, including Joe Dante, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stephen King, Donald F. Glut, Penn & Teller, Billy Bob Thornton, Gene Simmons ( of the band Kiss ), Rick Baker, George Lucas, Danny Elfman, Frank Darabont, John Landis and countless other writers, directors, artists and craftsmen.

In their 1972 study, The Unknown Orwell, the writers Peter Stansky and William Abrahams note that at Eton Blair displayed a " sceptical attitude " to Christian belief, and that: " Shaw's preface to his recently published Androcles and the Lion in which an account of the gospels is set forth, very different in tone from what one would be likely to hear from an Anglican clergyman " was " much more to Blair's own taste.

The argument clearly depends on the assumption that if " good " were definable, it would be an analytic truth about " good ," an assumption many contemporary moral realists like Richard Boyd and Peter Railton reject.

After having discussions with Beck in regards to how the film would be handled, the two wrote the American version and worked with editor Peter Zinner to remove scenes, recut others and change the sequence of several events.

As the only country performer to participate, some worried that Brooks would turn his cover of the song originally sung by drummer Peter Criss, " Hard Luck Woman ", into a country song.

At Pentecost the Apostle Peter declared that this gift, which was making some in the audience ridicule the disciples as drunks, was the fulfilment of the prophecy of Joel which described that God would pour out his Spirit on all flesh ( Acts 2: 17 ).

Some feel it also suggests that the inhabitants of Galatia at his time were using a gospel or gospels disagreeing with Paul's beliefs, which Gospel of Barnabas could be one of them ( although the Gospel of Peter would seem a more natural candidate, as in the light of the second letter.

20th Century Fox executive Peter Levathes fired her and hired Lee Remick to replace her, prompting co-star Dean Martin to quit, since his contract guaranteed he would be playing opposite Monroe.

In the book Why I Am Still a Catholic: Essays in Faith and Perseverance by Peter Stanford, the television presenter Dermot O ' Leary describes his upbringing as " classic plastic paddy ", where he would be " bullied in a nice way " by his own cousins in Wexford for being English " until anyone else there called me English and then they would stick up for me.

Peter Sellers was also a popular and influential improviser who would often improvise the dialogue in his work.

Saying " Peter speaks Inuit " is a very strange usage that most people who are familiar with the Inuit language would recognise as suspect, comparable to asserting that Hispanics must speak " Hispanic ".