This ruler recruited General Patrick Gordon from Scotland to lead his country's army.
This man established the Kunstkamera, his country's first museum, to preserve natural and human curiosities. This ruler recruited General Patrick Gordon from Scotland to lead his country's army. This ruler, who played war games with his "Toy Army", suppressed a rebellion from guardsmen known as the (*) streltsy and issued a tax that required noblemen to pay 100 rubles in order to wear a beard. After losing the Battle of Narva, this tsar defeated Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava. For ten points, name this winner of the Great Northern War, a Russian tsar, whose "Grand Embassy" to Europe inspired his reforms to westernize Russia.
This man established the Kunstkamera, his country's first museum, to preserve natural and human curiosities.
Peter I [or Peter the Great, or Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov; prompt on “Peter”] &lt;RP&gt;