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The 68 pages that link to Peter the Great, each with the reason it gives.

• Russian EmpireRelated: His victories and reforms established the empire’s formal status and reshaped its institutions.

• Russian Orthodox ChurchRelated: His reforms subordinated church administration to the imperial state.

• Russian languageRelated: His reforms reshaped Russian writing practices and introduced many Western European loanwords.

• Catherine the GreatCompared with: Catherine invoked Peter’s legacy while extending the empire and reshaping its administration.

• MoscowCompared with: His capital shift temporarily displaced Moscow from the center of imperial government.

• Absolute monarchyBroader topic: His reforms show how a monarch could reorganize institutions from the center.

• Saint PetersburgRelated: He chose the site and made the new city a center of his westernizing reforms.

• Great Northern WarRelated: His military reforms and persistence made Russia the war’s principal beneficiary.

• Ivan the TerribleCompared with: His later program of state expansion offers a distinct model of Russian autocracy and modernization.

• AbsolutismBroader topic: He strengthened centralized rule while transforming Russia’s army and state institutions.

• Russian Academy of SciencesRelated: He founded the academy in 1724 as part of his effort to build Russian science.

• Charles XII of SwedenCompared with: His strategic patience and expanding state ultimately overcame Charles’s battlefield successes.

• Vitus BeringRelated: Peter ordered the first expedition to investigate the boundary between Asia and America.

• Treaty of NystadRelated: Peter led Russia through the war and accepted the peace terms that secured its Baltic gains.

• WesternizationBroader topic: His reforms made Western dress, expertise, and state practices instruments of imperial power.

• Battle of PoltavaRelated: His command and reforms shaped the Russian army that won at Poltava.

• Censorship in the Russian EmpireRelated: His reforms helped bring printing and religious publication under stronger state supervision.

• Augustus II the StrongRelated: Russian military support helped Augustus regain the Polish throne, while increasing Russian influence there.

• Russian EnlightenmentRelated: His westernizing reforms created institutions and habits later used by Enlightenment thinkers.

• Russian nobilityRelated: His reforms tied advancement and noble status more closely to service to the crown.

• Selim IIICompared with: His reforms offer a comparison for the challenges of importing European military models.

• Elizabeth of RussiaRelated: Elizabeth was Peter’s daughter and invoked his legacy to strengthen her claim to the throne.

• Tsardom of RussiaBroader topic: His reforms and imperial proclamation ended the tsardom’s formal period.

• Russian autocracyBroader topic: His reforms strengthened centralized government and the monarch’s control over service elites.

• Russian NavyRelated: His naval reforms and shipbuilding program established Russia’s permanent navy.

• SlavophilismRelated: Slavophiles often treated his Westernizing reforms as a rupture between Russia’s people and its ruling elite.

• Winter PalaceRelated: His new capital provided the setting for a permanent imperial residence.

• BoyarRelated: His reforms abolished the old boyar rank and reorganized elite service.

• Russian imperialismRelated: His reforms strengthened the state that became an empire and expanded its reach in Europe.

• Saint Petersburg State UniversityRelated: He established the Academy of Sciences whose academic gymnasium and university became the university’s institutional origins.

• Catherine I of RussiaRelated: Her husband and predecessor, Peter designated her as his successor.

• Cyrillic alphabetRelated: His civil-script reform reshaped the appearance of Russian Cyrillic letters.

• Ivan MazepaRelated: Mazepa’s break with Peter I turned their wartime relationship into open conflict.

• Michael of RussiaBroader topic: His later transformation of Russia unfolded within the dynasty Michael established.

• Neva RiverRelated: He founded Saint Petersburg on the Neva in 1703.

• Old BelieversRelated: His policies extended state pressure on communities that had survived the initial schism.

• StreltsyRelated: His military reforms and suppression of streltsy rebellions ended the force's political standing.

• Volga–Don CanalRelated: His reign saw an early, unsuccessful effort to build a canal between the rivers.

• Alexis of RussiaBroader topic: Alexis’s son Peter inherited a state whose expansion and centralization had advanced during his father’s reign.

• ArkhangelskRelated: His naval reforms and new capital reduced Arkhangelsk’s primacy as Russia’s principal port.

• Battle of NarvaRelated: His army besieged Narva, while Peter himself was away when the battle began.

• Russian artRelated: His westernizing reforms transformed artistic training, patronage, and court culture.

• Semyon DezhnevRelated: Peter's government later sponsored exploration that brought Dezhnev's route back into view.

• TallinnRelated: He commissioned Kadriorg Palace after Russia took Tallinn from Sweden.

• Anna of RussiaRelated: As her uncle, Peter the Great connected Anna to the ruling Romanov line.

• Peter Simon PallasRelated: The institution he founded later employed Pallas and sponsored his research.

• PetrozavodskRelated: He ordered the ironworks founded in 1703 that became the city's namesake.

• Aleksey KhomyakovRelated: Slavophiles criticized the Westernizing transformation associated with Peter’s reign.

• Battle of GangutRelated: He sponsored Russia’s naval expansion and celebrated the victory as evidence of its rising power.

• Battle of LesnayaRelated: He ordered Russian forces to pursue Lewenhaupt and took part in the battle.