This man appointed Nikita Zotov, a member of his "Jolly Company," to be overseer of his "Governing Senate." This man was forced to sign the Treaty of the Pruth, in which he returned the land of Azov to Ahmed III. This man was also forced to return from his Great Embassy to the West following his half-sister Sophia's attempt to raise a rebellion of the Streltsy. Ivan Mazepa deserted this man during a war in which this ruler defeated troops under Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava. For 10 points, name this victor of the Great Northern War and modernizing tsar, who constructed a former capital city of Russia 
This man appointed Nikita Zotov, a member of his "Jolly Company," to be overseer of his "Governing Senate." This man was forced to sign the Treaty of the Pruth, in which he returned the land of Azov to Ahmed III. This man was also forced to return from his Great Embassy to the West following his half-sister Sophia's attempt to raise a rebellion of the Streltsy. Ivan Mazepa deserted this man during a war in which this ruler defeated troops under Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava. For 10 points, name this victor of the Great Northern War and modernizing tsar, who constructed a former capital city of Russia in honor of his namesake saint.
This man appointed Nikita Zotov, a member of his "Jolly Company," to be overseer of his "Governing Senate.
Peter I [or Peter the Great; or Pyotr I; or Pyotr Velikiy; prompt on "Peter" or "Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov"]