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Three centuries without Peter the Great, the mirror in which Putin looks: "He has no other history to talk about than the Russian Empire"
The current occupant of the Kremlin uses the example of the first emperor to justify his policy: "Just like him, today we ...
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Could Europe’s freakish winter of 1709 happen again?
More significantly, historians regard the victory of Peter the Great’s Russia over Sweden at the Battle of Poltava in June 1709 as a decisive moment in Russia’s transformation into a regional ...