This man temporarily ruled with his half-brother Ivan V, and as a child, he staged elaborate war games in which many aristocratic boys died.
This man temporarily ruled with his half-brother Ivan V, and as a child, he staged elaborate war games in which many aristocratic boys died. This man defeated Sweden in the Great Northern War and used the shipbuilding techniques he had learned in (*) Europe to build the Russian navy. Under his reign, noblemen were forced to cut off their beards, and, in 1718, he executed his son Alexei and died without an heir, leaving the throne to his wife, Catherine I. For ten points , name this tsar who modernized Russia.
This man temporarily ruled with his half-brother Ivan V, and as a child, he staged elaborate war games in which many aristocratic boys died.
{Peter the Great} (accept {Peter I} , {Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov} or {Pyotr Veliki}; prompt on {Peter})