Peter the Great

By josiahdillard
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    Campaigns against the Crimean Tatars

    Peter works on making a clear route to the Black Sea. the result was Peter gaining a good amount of land

  • Peter has Absolute Power over Russia

    Ivan Peter's half brother dies leaving Peter to rule alone over Russia. Since there were no other successors

  • Peter Returns

    Peter comes back from his travels just in time to harshly stop a uprising, many people were executed as a result

  • Military victories

    Peter's soldiers capture Narva and Tartu, which leads to a huge win at the battle of Poltava

  • Peter Establishes a new city

    Peter established a new city of St. Petersburg, on the Neva river and made it Russia's new capitol

  • Peter kills his son

    Peter secretly kills his son Alexei on the grounds that he committed treason.

  • Russia becomes a Empire

    After some big reforms by Peter, He proclaimed Russia an empire and became empire of all Russia

  • Invades Persian land

    Peter invades Persian land, and after a year Persia gives up part of the control they had in the Caspian sea

  • Peasants Gain power

    Peter decided that anyone could be promoted based off their skill, and not social class which was how it was done before

  • Peter saves his men

    Peter sees soldier drowning in the Gulf of Finland, and dives in the freezing water to rescue them. Peter because seriously ill after his heroism.