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Additional Reading
Pisāma i bumagi Imperatora Petra Velikogo, 11 vol. (1887ā1964), contains Peterās correspondence as well as valuable documents on Russian history up to 1711. Biographies include M.M. BogoslovskiÄ, Petr I, 5 vol. (1940ā48, reissued 1969), a detailed study up to 1700; Ian Grey, Peter the Great, Emperor of All Russia (1960); M.S. Anderson, Peter the Great (1978); Alex De Jonge, Fire and Water: A Life of Peter the Great (1979); Robert K. Massie, Peter the Great: His Life and World (1980, reprinted 1991); and Henri Troyat, Peter the Great (1987; originally published in French, 1979), a popularized account.
Peterās reign and the reforms he instituted are analyzed in SergeÄ M. Solovāev, Publichnyia chteniia o Petrie Velikom (1872, reissued 1984), by a famous Russian historian; B.H. Sumner, Peter the Great and the Emergence of Russia (1950, reissued 1972); Reinhard Wittram, Peter I, Czar und Kaiser, 2 vol. (1964), and Peter der Grosse: der Eintritt Russlands in die Neuzeit (1954); Ivan I. Golikov, Dieianiia Petra Velikago, 2nd ed., 15 vol. (1837ā43), on his reforms; James Cracraft, The Church Reform of Peter the Great (1971); Alexander V. Muller (ed. and trans.), The Spiritual Regulation of Peter the Great, trans. from Russian (1972); and Evgenii V. Anisimov, The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress Through Coercion in Russia (1993; originally published in Russian, 1989). J.G. Garrard (ed.), The Eighteenth Century in Russia (1973), provides a collection of essays on different aspects of the Westernization of Russia. Peterās military campaigns and his role as the founder of the new Russian army are explored in the works of a prominent Soviet historian, EvgeniÄ V. Tarle, RusskiÄ flot i vneshniaia politika Petra I (1949), also available in a German translation, Russisch-englische Beziehungen unter Peter I (1954), and Severnaia voÄna i shvedskoe nashestvie na Rossiiu (1958). Foreign relations are described by Leonid A. Nikiforov, Russko-angliÄskie otnosheniia pri Petre I (1950); and B.H. Sumner, Peter the Great and the Ottoman Empire (1949, reissued 1965).
Xenia Gasiorowska, The Image of Peter the Great in Russian Fiction (1979), is a study of some 60 historical novels written since Pushkinās time. Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, The Image of Peter the Great in Russian History and Thought (1985), examines Peterās influence and how he has been perceived in Russia from 1700 to 1983.
Works that put Peter the Great and his reign into historical perspective include Vasili Klyuchevsky, The Rise of the Romanovs, trans. and ed. by Liliana Archibald (1970; originally published in Russian, 1912); E.M. Almedingen, The Romanovs: Three Centuries of an Ill-Fated Dynasty (1966); John D. Bergamini, The Tragic Dynasty: A History of the Romanovs (1969), based on English- and French-language sources; Ian Grey, The Romanovs: The Rise and Fall of a Dynasty (1970); and W. Bruce Lincoln, The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russias (1981).
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| Invalidated site: OpenSPACES at UNK - Peter the Great vs. Charles XII of Sweden in the Great Northern War. | Sep 14, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jun 05, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Heritage History - Early Years of Peter the Great (Peter Alexievitch). | Apr 18, 2026 | ||
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| Add new Web site: Heritage History - Peter the Great. | Aug 02, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Presidential Library - Birthday anniversary of the first Russian Emperor Peter I the Great. | Mar 21, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 12, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: OpenSPACES at UNK - Peter the Great vs. Charles XII of Sweden in the Great Northern War. | Oct 04, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - The Great and Not So Great Deeds of Peter the Great. | May 27, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 23, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Internet Archive - Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia; a study of historical biography. | Dec 26, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Peter the Great. | Oct 16, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Chemistry LibreTexts - Peter the Great. | Apr 24, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Biography of Peter the Great. | Jan 02, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Peter the Great's utopia. | Aug 23, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine - Biography of Peter I. | May 01, 2022 | ||
| Map added. | May 13, 2021 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 15, 2021 | ||
| Added information about his death. | Oct 29, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Facts about Famous People - Peter the Great Facts and Biography. | Feb 25, 2019 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jan 03, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Heritage History - Biography of Peter the Great. | Jan 12, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Royal Museums Greenwich - Biography of Peter the Great. | Jan 12, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Russia-InfoCentre - Biography of Peter I. | Jan 12, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: HyperHistory - Biography of Peter I the Great. | Apr 25, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: History Learning Site - Biography of Peter the Great. | Apr 11, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: RT Russiapedia - Biography of Peter I the Great. | Apr 11, 2013 | ||
| Media added. | Aug 11, 2011 | ||
| Deleted incorrect mention of Leningrad. | Jan 28, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - What Was In Peter The Great's Cabinet Of Curiosities? | Oct 24, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - Biography of Peter I. | Oct 21, 2008 | ||
| Media added. | Nov 02, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Jun 21, 2000 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |