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Peter was born in Moscow. His parents were Father Alexis of Russia and Mother Nataliya Naryshkina.
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Peter Co-rules Russia with his half brother Ivan V.
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Peter is now the head ruler and Tsar of Russia.
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The journey to Europe was called the Great Embassy he visited Venice, England, and Holland. He visited almost every factory, printing press, and museum so that Russia could do the same.
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Peter wanted change so as soon as he got into power, he increased his power to absolute power.
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When Peter returned from his Great Embassy, he put the Russian church under his full control. All non-serfs were required to serve the state in the Government or the military.
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Peter begins to introduce things like potatoes (which were the staples of the Russian diet), Russian newspaper to exchange ideas, increased woman status and they could now attend social gatherings.
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Peter rushed back to Russia to handle a rebellion to find out it was already taken care of by his army.
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Peter introduced taxes on things like beards, robes, mills, leather, coffins, and meat. This helped pay for his huge army of about 200,000 men. Soon the taxes gave him enough money to pay for the army and more
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The army was introduced first in 1699 and the army was drilled by European soldiers and the army used European guns.
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The Great Northern War was between Russia and Sweden over a piece of land on the Baltic coast called the "Window of Europe". He used this to build his city later on.
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Peter the Great founded his city on a unhealthy swamp off the Neva river. The location was purposely chosen so ships could sail in. 25k to 100k people died working on the swamp.
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The Swedes invaded Russia and defeated Peter at Golovchin in July, but were defeated at the Battle of Lesnaya.. They then turned to the Ukraine, and Peter had anything valuable burned as the Russians fled. However, in the end Russia did win.
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Peter the great died on this day.Peter did not choose a successor for his throne.
