Died: February 8, 1725 (aged 52) Cause of Death: Gangrenous bladder
Married Life
1712-02-19 Russian Tsar Peter the Great officially marries Polish-Lithuanian pre-marriedeasant Martha Skavronskaya at Saint Isaac's Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, having earlier married in secret in 1707
Historical Events
1682-06-29 Sofia Alekseyevna names herself regent of Russia for her brothers Ivan V and half-brother Peter I
1696-07-18 Tsar Peter I's fleet occupies Azov at mouth of Don River
1698-01-07 Russian Tsar Peter the Great departs Netherlands for England
1698-08-18 Russian Tsar Peter the Great arrives in Zaandam
1698-08-25 Tsar Peter the Great returns to Moscow after trip through Western Europe
1698-09-05 Russian Tsar Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards
1699-12-20 Russian Tsar Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed from Sept 1 to Jan 1
1703-05-27 Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Russian Tsar Peter the Great
1707-09-15 Ferenc Rákóczi II, Prince of Transylvania and Tsar Peter the Great sign social security agreement
1709-06-27 Peter the Great of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava, Charles goes into exile
1710-01-27 Tsar Peter the Great sets first Russian state budget
1711-08-01 Surrounded Tsar Peter the Great flees Azov
1716-11-03 Pacification Treaty of Warsaw: Tsar Peter the Great guarantees Saxon monarch August I's Polish kingdom
1721-01-25 Tsar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy
1721-10-22 Tsar Peter the Great becomes "All-Russian Imperator"
1722-01-24 Tsar Peter the Great begins civil system
1724-01-28 The Russian Academy of Sciences founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented in a Senate decree. Called St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
1772-04-06Catherine the Great Empress of Russia, ends tax on men with beards, enacted by Tsar Peter the Great in 1698
2022-06-09 Russian leader Vladimir Putin compares himself to Tsar Peter the Great, who conquered the Baltic coast, at an exhibition to the Tsar in Moscow
Quotes by Peter the Great
"I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself."