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After Ivan dies, Peter becomes the Sovereign of Russia, at that time a very undeveloped state.
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Peter wanted to expand his empire so he went to war to gaun area in the Baltic states. It lasted for 21 years.
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When the Patriarch dies he is usually succeeded by someone with experience, but instead, Peter the Great replaced him with Stephen Yavorsky as patriarchal "exarch".
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Peter the Great and Charles XII went to war because Charles XII thought that St. Petersburg was his. In 1709 Peter the Great was victorious to the Swedish.
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After the capital was in Moscow, Peter the Great decides to move it to St. Petersburg because of the trading and other benefits it provided.
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The Ecclesiastical College was later called Holy Governing Synod and was a comitee of churchmen that governed the church.