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About Nicholas V. Riasanovsky

Peter I, better known as Peter the Great (9 June [O.S. 30 May] 1672

– 8 February [O.S. 28 January] 1725), was Tsar of all Russia from 1682 and the first Emperor of Russia from 1721 until his death in 1725. He reigned jointly with his half-brother Ivan V until 1696. Peter, as an autocrat, organized a well-ordered police state.

Much of Peter's reign was consumed by lengthy wars against the Ottoman and Swedish empires. His Azov campaigns were followed by the foundation of the Russian Navy; after his victory in the Great Northern War, Russia annexed a significant portion of the eastern Baltic coastline and was officially raised from a tsardom to an empire. Peter led a cultural revolution that replaced some of the traditionalist and medieval social and political systems with ones that were modern, scientific, Westernized, and based on the radical Enlightenment.

Nicholas V. Riasanovsky writes about Soviet union, history, Slavophilism, Russia (federation), history, History, and Europe, eastern, history. Their best-known work is A History of Russia.

On FindMyTBR we track 1 book by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, 1 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including A History of Russia : 9th Edition. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.