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During his time the Russians gained independence
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He was in an empire and normally paid the rulers but he didn't one time and they got in a fight about it and he won. After that he never got demanded again.
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He launched a war against the Novgorod princedom and in 1470 he conquered it. He claimed all of northern Russia from Finland to the Ural mountains.
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The first emperor of Russia
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peter ascended to the throne
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St. Petersburg sprang up, becoming Russia's new capital
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Embarked his biggest military under taking, called Northern War.
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People described him as a soldier and a little bit of peter the great.
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He was never brought up to be an empire
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He was never brought up to be an empire
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He didn't want to be a ruler but after Alex died he felt that he had to or he was going to die. He was going to die because no one liked him.
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When he died there was a rumor that he poisoned himself, but the truth was that he didn't. He got a cold in 1853 and it got so bad that he died.