Peter the Great

By blackid500

  • Peter the Great

  • After the death of their elder brother, Fedor III, under the regency of their sister, Tsarevna Sophia Alexeevna, Peter I the Great (1672-1725) became Tsar of Russia jointly with his sickly half-brother Ivan V (1666-1696)

  • The rule of Peter I the Great began, until 1725. The original stone cathedral of the Monastery of the Epiphany in Moscow was built during this time. It was built over the remnants of an earlier wooden church

  • In Russia a rebellion by government Streltsy regiments killed the grandfather, aunts and other relatives of Peter the Great. The Monastery of Peter the Metropolitan was reconstructed and as served as the family necropolis.

  • The sickly half-brother to Russia's Tsar Peter the Great, Ivan V, dies leaving Peter the Great as the sole ruler of Russia.

  • Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe.

  • Russian Czar Peter the Great departs Netherlands to England.

  • Russia's Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards.

  • Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed from 1 September to 1 January.

  • St Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great (1672-1725)

  • Czar Peter the Great sets the first Russian state budget.

  • Czar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy.

  • Czar Peter the Great begins the civil system.

  • Peter the Great, King of Russia, dies in St. Petersburg.