This man captured Azov from the Ottomans several years after putting down a Streltsy uprising led by his sister Sophia. That uprising cut short this man's Grand Embassy tour of Europe. In addition to taxing Old Believers, this man's religious reforms included establishing the Procurator of the Holy Synod. During one war, ended by the treaty of (*) Nystadt, this man was victorious at Poltava after losing to Charles XII of Sweden at Narva. Along with winning the Great Northern War, this man built a city that was later renamed Leningrad. For 10 points, name this modernizing Russian tsar whose epithet is "the Great".
This man captured Azov from the Ottomans several years after putting down a Streltsy uprising led by his sister Sophia. That uprising cut short this man's Grand Embassy tour of Europe. In addition to taxing Old Believers, this man's religious reforms included establishing the Procurator of the Holy Synod. During one war, ended by the treaty of (*) Nystadt, this man was victorious at Poltava after losing to Charles XII of Sweden at Narva. Along with winning the Great Northern War, this man built a city that was later renamed Leningrad. For 10 points, name this modernizing Russian tsar whose epithet is "the Great".
This man captured Azov from the Ottomans several years after putting down a Streltsy uprising led by his sister Sophia.
{Peter I} [accept {Peter the Great}; accept {Peter} at the end]