The imperial title of Peter the Great was the following:
By the grace of God, the most excellent and great sovereign emperor Pyotr Alekseevich the ruler of all the Russias: of Moscow, of Kiev, of

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Named after the apostle, and described as a newborn as "with good health, his mother's black, vaguely Tatareyes, and a tuft of auburn hair", from an early age Peter's education (commissioned

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Peter implemented sweeping reforms aimed at modernizingRussia. Heavily influenced by his advisors from Western Europe, Peter reorganized

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Peter the Great had two wives, with whom he had fourteen children, three of whom survived to adulthood. Peter's mother selected his first wife, Eudoxia Lopukhina, with the advice of other nobles in 1689. This was consistent with previous Romanov tradition by

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Peter was deeply religious, being brought up in the Russian Orthodox faith, but he had low regard for the Church hierarchy, which he kept under tight governmental control. The traditional

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Peter's legacy has always been a major concern of Russian intellectuals. Riasanovsky points to a "paradoxical dichotomy" in the black and white images such as God/Antichrist,

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Peter has been featured in many histories, novels, plays, films, monuments and paintings. They include the poems The Bronze Horseman

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