Queen Victoria is sitting in the Green Drawing Room at Windsor Castle, surrounded by members of her family. On the mantelpiece is a bronze bust of Prince Albert. Queen Victoria commissioned the painting to commemorate the gathering of her family for the G

Russian Empires

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Peter the Great (1682-1725)

      Peter the Great (1682–1725) is the first Tsar to call himself emperor. He changed and expanded Russia into a huge empire and major European power. He replaced some of the traditionalist/medieval/social and political systems with a modern, scientific, Europe orientated and rationalist system. Peter created the Navy and Built St. Petersburg.

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