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  2. 1 day ago · Siege of Baku. Peter I ( Russian: Пётр I Алексеевич, romanized : Pyotr I Alekseyevich, [note 1] IPA: [ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ]; 9 June [ O.S. 30 May] 1672 – 8 February [ O.S. 28 January] 1725), was Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia, known as Peter the Great, [note 2] from 1721 until ...

  3. 1 day ago · On May 16, 1703, Peter the Great laid the first stone of the Peter and Paul Fortress, the first step in his grand vision of establishing a new, modern capital on the Baltic Sea. The original citadel, named the Sankt-Piterburkh Fortress, was constructed of dirt and timber under the direction of Swiss-Italian military engineer Domenico Trezzini.

  4. 1 day ago · The Birth of Russia’s New Capital on May 27, 1703. Three hundred and twenty-one years ago today, on May 27, 1703, Tsar Peter the Great founded the city of Saint Petersburg, a monumental event that would transform Russia’s cultural, economic, and political landscape. Situated on the banks of the Neva River, Saint Petersburg was envisioned as ...

  5. 2 days ago · PETER THE GREAT'S HOUSE AT DEPTFORD (1850). Near the docks was the seat of John Evelyn, called Say's or Saye's Court, where, as stated above, Peter the Great, Czar of Muscovy, resided for some time whilst completing in the dockyard his knowledge and skill in the practical part of naval architecture.

  6. 1 day ago · 1703: Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Russian Tsar Peter the Great. 1896: A tornado strikes St Louis and East St Louis, Illinois, killing 255 people. 1905: Japanese annihilate Russian Baltic fleet of 35 ships in Tsushima Straits off Korea, ending the Russo-japanese war and forcing the European powers to treat Japan as an equal.

  7. The No. 14 chair introduced in 1859 by German-Austrian cabinet maker Michael Thonet is considered a design classic. The first mass-produced item of furniture, it was made on a factory line by unskilled workers and 36 could ship as parts in a box one cubic meter in size. 50 million were sold by 1930.

  8. 6 days ago · Posts: 95. Finally completed the first of 1/350 scale Kirov Class Heavy Battlecrusier the Peter The Great. Having built this kit and updated the ship to her current technological state as best as I was able to research I can see how these vast vessels where of great concern to the US Navy Admiralty when they where built.

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