"How can such a beautiful city cover such a bloodthirsty evil like Putin?"
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A quick dive into the history of Saint Petersburg, Russia!
Founded by Peter the Great on May 27, 1703, as Russia's "window to Europe" after capturing Swedish land in the Great […]
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#PeterTheGreat died #OnThisDay in 1725, the greatest tsar in Russian history & certainly the most influential; the enormous reforms Peter initiated launched #Russia on its #imperialist career of expansion & conquest continued today by Vladimir Putin...
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This day in #StrangeAsItSeems history!
January 28th, 1937
#PeterTheGreat #BasketballHistory #dachsunds #dogs #coffee
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JANUARY 13TH
Peter the Great (1986)
directed by Marvin J. Chomsky & Lawrence Schiller, written by Edward Anhalt
Vanessa Redgrave plays Tsarevna Sophia
Review: boxd.it/cCeNGB
#VanessaRedgrave #PetertheGreat #TsarevnaSophia #1986film #NBC #television #TVSky
(Stanstionnaya). As an aside, the unexpected ‘n’ in #Russian is because the word comes from 17th-C #Polish #stancja (from #Latin #statio, standing, residence, but where they got the ‘n’ from I do not know…, possibly a routine #nasalization] and used since #PeterTheGreat (1672-1725), to be
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mummies in #China. But I digress, back to #beer. Various rumors revolve around #PeterTheGreat and #CatherineTheGreat both developing a taste for #stout porter, apparently first brewed in #London by the #AnchorBrewery of #RalphThrale (1698-1758) and which, since it didn’t travel well, he built
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#Russia (1684-1727), second wife of #PeterTheGreat and #EmpressOfRussia from 1725 for #KatariinaTrepp (steps) next to Peter the Great’s cottage, #PeetriMajake (maja = house, ke = diminutive, hence cottage) aka Peetri I Maja, now a museum at No.2 #Mäekalda (they seemed to like the simple life
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The Russian Empire was born on this day in 1721, when Tsar Peter I proclaimed it after defeating Sweden in the Great Northern War. #RandomFact #DailyFact #History #RussianEmpire #PeterTheGreat
#peterthegreat around #Brussels
Peter the Great abused of some belgian drinks and threw over in a fountain (just in front of the current royal palace) fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buste_d...
for #uglybelgianstatues
Not all of them are really ugly... but !
More info on: www.charleslemaire.eu/Travaux/ugly...
Two Old Believers from Nikolaevsk, Alaska, in traditional dress
What might seem trivial, like the style of one’s face, became a battleground for culture, identity, and the direction of a nation.
#PeterTheGreat #RussianHistory #BeardTax #CulturalChange #EarlyModernHistory #TsarPeterI
#Gastromancy #FunwithFood #Food #knowledge #Culinary #arts #foodgasms #Foodsky #caviar #VolgaRiver #Sturgeon #PetertheGreat #CatherinetheGreat #TsarIvanIV #WIP #diary #amwriting #writer #wordcount #editing #reading #fiction #fantasy #mindpen #Booksky #author #poetry #novel #mustread #Justwrite 🖖
📻 📢 #Listenback to episode 2, series 2 of #IrishImperialLives.
We venture to #ImperialRussia with @angela-historian.bsky.social
#Listennow wherever you get your #podcasts
#irishhistory #worldhistory #russianhistory #empire #historypodcast #historylovers #imperialhistory #soldier #peterthegreat
Russia's #PeterTheGreat defeated Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of #Poltava #OnThisDay in 1709 in the decisive engagement of the #GreatNorthernWar, leading to the collapse of #Sweden's Baltic empire & the rise of #Russia to great power status...
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Yes, this is a super obscure reference.
Hint: #Hercules #PeterTheGreat
#OnThisDay in 2022, Russian leader #VladimirPutin compares himself to Tsar #PetertheGreat, who conquered the Baltic coast, at an exhibition to the Tsar in Moscow.
#PetertheGreat was born #OnThisDay in 1672.
The reforming tsar sought to westernise his empire, yet in 1723 he published an uncompromising reassertion of his absolutist doctrine.
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👑 On this day in 1703: Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
🖼️ Paintings by Maria Giovanna Clementi and Alexandre Benois.
#PeterTheGreat #StPetersburg #SaintPetersburg #Russia #OnThisDay #TodayInHistory #WorldHistoryEncyclopedia #History
Loose lips sinks ships
Don't ask
Don't tell
#staysalty
#ivantheterrible
#romanov
#peterthegreat
#catherinethegreat
#saintpetersburg
#catherinepalace
#changeofvenue
#saintpetersbasilica
#roma
#eulogy
#lunchnlearns
an #African of uncertain origin who arrived in #Russia as a child of 8 as a ‘gift’ to #PeterTheGreat and rose to become general, lived at No.1, known as #Komandandimaja (commander’s house), from 1742-52 while superintendent of #Reval, Tallinn’s name from 1200s-1918. See also #Toompea.
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The latest chapter in my biography of Peter the Great was about the Streltsy revolt and the torture that ensued after. It was a bit nauseating but also quite interesting learning about the top 3 torture methods in Russia at the time.
#PetertheGreat
#booksky
#books
#history
The Peter the Great episode is out today! He beat up the Swedish Empire. He created the Russian Navy. He used English curtains as toilet paper. If that last one piqued your interest, there is a whole lot more of that in the episode. Tune in today. #HistoricallyHigh #PetertheGreat
Peetri (Peeter)
Almost certainly #PeterTheGreat, ruled 1682-1721, widely considered the greatest of male #Russian monarchs, and go-to Tsar for any #Russian-based naming-project not involving the #Soviets, the main one being
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kalamaja
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
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Tomorrow we dip into the Russian Empire. First stop in the Romanov Dynasty is Peter the Great. Peter helped bring a sort of enlightenment to Russia. He did it while partying like no other leader we have covered before. Join us for Peter the Great! #HistoricallyHigh #PetertheGreat
In 2019 we spent 2 days in St Petersburg. We found a #nuke! It is outside an Artillery Museum so hopefully it wasnt 'live'! #PeterandPaulFortress last resting place of the Tsars including #PetertheGreat. #Travelphotography #Travelphoto
#PeterTheGreat died #OnThisDay in 1725; it's not too much to say that he was the single most influential figure in all of Russian #history & the debate between Europeanizers & Slavophiles that his reign ignited continue to be relevant three hundred years later...
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Peter the Great (1672-1725), Emperor of Russia
Died #otd Peter the Great (1672-1725), Emperor of Russia, 300 years ago today #PetertheGreat life story...
