This ruler put down rebellious rifle regiments hoping to place this ruler's sister Sophia Alekseyevna or her lover Vasily Galitzine in power. In addition to dealing with the Streltsy Uprising, this man established the Table of Ranks to keep track of his government. This ruler participated in his own Grand Embassy through Western Europe to seek allies against the Ottomans, after which he imposed a tax on beards. The largest conflict during this man's reign saw him avenge a defeat against Charles XII at Narva by crushing the Swedish at the Battle of Poltava. For 10 points, name this Russian tsar who fought the Great Northern War and founded a city later renamed Leningrad.
This ruler put down rebellious rifle regiments hoping to place this ruler's sister Sophia Alekseyevna or her lover Vasily Galitzine in power. In addition to dealing with the Streltsy Uprising, this man established the Table of Ranks to keep track of his government. This ruler participated in his own Grand Embassy through Western Europe to seek allies against the Ottomans, after which he imposed a tax on beards. The largest conflict during this man's reign saw him avenge a defeat against Charles XII at Narva by crushing the Swedish at the Battle of Poltava. For 10 points, name this Russian tsar who fought the Great Northern War and founded a city later renamed Leningrad.
This ruler put down rebellious rifle regiments hoping to place this ruler's sister Sophia Alekseyevna or her lover Vasily Galitzine in power.
Peter the Great or Peter I [Accept Pyotr I Alexeyevich Romanov]