(1) Peter the Great was among the many celebrities who flocked to Delft to see the little animalcules for themselves.

(2) Lewis was our Peter the Great, and perhaps just as mad and cruel.

(3) From Augustus to Peter the Great, the history books were ransacked to find suitable comparisons.

(4) Finally, from the time of Peter the Great decision-making power was concentrated in undiluted form in the hands of the monarch.

(5) Peter the Great gave dramatic impetus to the westernization which had begun to affect Muscovy.

(6) Peter the Great decreed it should be a naval base.

(7) Peter the Great had to start from scratch when he built St. Petersburg.

(8) Russia's Peter the Great was a cruel despot.

(9) Peter the Great, like his country, was.

(10) Peter the Great has books translated from the west, including John Locke, into Russian.

(11) Peter the Great which was found in the snow outside St Petersburg, have been.

(12) From there Peter the Great, an Enlightenment man, sent expeditions of scientific inquiry to search for a strait between Asia and America, and in 1741 Vitus Bering found Alaska.

(13) Peter the Great shocked London by his wild behaviour and that of his entourage when he visited England in 1698.

(14) In Russian history, it is Peter the Great and Stalin who are considered the great modernisers rather than Alexander II, who abolished serfdom, or Mr Gorbachev, who opened up the country.

(15) In 1716, Frederick William I gave it to Peter the Great, as a gift of friendship from the Prussian to the Russian people.

(16) Today Peter the Great on his bronze horse can once again look out over the city he built.

(17) In Russian history, both Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great used to carry out kinds of reforms respectively.

(18) Empress Catherine the First, wife if Peter the Great began construction of the palace in 1711.

(19) A pair of rock crystal goblets engraved with the cipher of Peter the Great.

(20) But Russia has confirmed that it will be sending the flagship of its Baltic fleet, the nuclear-powered cruiser Peter the Great.

(21) The Russian empire, the state of Muscovy had already expanded greatly, but it's really Peter the Great, it's the big guy who expanded Russia, its territorial size enormously.

(22) As empress, Catherine continued the process of Westernizing Russia like Peter the Great and Tsarina Elizabeth had done before her.

(23) The bride was English, a former student of mine, but she posed for photographs like an archetypal Petersburg beauty at the foot of the Bronze Horseman, Falconet's statue of Peter the Great.

(24) Particular topics include the rise of the Kievan State, the Mongol Yoke, the rise of Muscovy, Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, relations with Western Europe.