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Hace 5 días · Peter I Opened a Window to Europe. It is believed that this metaphor was first used by the Italian Francesco Algarotti in his notes after visiting Russia in the late 1730s, more than ten years after Peter’s death. In reality, Algarotti compared St. Petersburg to “a window through which Russia looks into Europe.”.
Hace 1 día · At Peter’s death his chief collaborators, who were headed by Prince Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov and were assisted by the guard regiments (the offshoots of the play regiments of Peter’s youth), put on the throne Peter’s widow—his second wife, Catherine I, the daughter of a Lithuanian peasant.
Hace 6 días · Contemporaries and later generations alike shared the feeling that Peter’s reign had been revolutionary—a radical and violent break with the centuries-old traditions of Muscovy. To some extent this was the consequence of Peter’s ruthless manner, his dynamism, his harsh suppression of all opposition, and his obstinate imposition ...
Hace 4 días · The pro-Prussian foreign and military policy pursued by Peter III (who abruptly ended Russia’s victorious involvement in the Seven Years’ War) and his treatment of his wife, Catherine, provoked much resentment.
Hace 2 días · Catherine the Great was a German princess who married Peter III, the German heir to the Russian crown. After the death of Empress Elizabeth, Catherine came to power after she effected a coup d'état against her very unpopular husband.
Hace 4 días · But Peter the Great, the tsar who built St. Petersburg and put Russia on the path of Westernization in just 30 years, did not live in the lap of luxury. His first palace in Petersburg was a...
Hace 4 días · Vladimir Putin’s efforts to downplay Ukraine’s invasion of Russia have severely dented his strongman image and make a mockery of the West’s escalation fears, writes Peter Dickinson.
