During this man's rule, his country's first newspaper, Records, debuted.
During this man's rule, his country's first newspaper, Records, debuted. The posad joined in the unsuccessful Astrakhan Revolt against this monarch, who named Franz Lefort as one of three "Grand Ambassadors." He eliminated the distinction between hereditary and granted lands, and he mandated primogeniture. He also reformed the civil service with the (*) Table of Ranks and founded the city of Taganrog after fighting alongside Austria, Venice, and Poland in the Holy League and capturing Azov. Following several revolts, he disbanded the streltsy. This ruler worked undercover in a Dutch East India Company shipyard and instituted a beard tax. For 10 points, name this modernizing tsar of Russia who founded a "window on the west" on the Baltic that bears his name.
During this man's rule, his country's first newspaper, Records, debuted.
Peter the Great [or Peter I; or Pyotr Alekseyevich; or Pyotr Veliky; prompt on Peter]