He introduced taxes to discourage traditional activities including bathing, fishing, beekeeping, and wearing beards.
This man founded the Kunstkamera Museum of curiosities and ordered all stillborn babies with birth defects to be sent there for display. As a boy, he organized his playmates and servants, along with German military advisors, to his "toy army," which would later from the nucleus of the imperial guard regiments. He created the table of ranks and required lifetime service from the nobility while defeating Sweden in the Great Northern War. He introduced taxes to discourage traditional activities including bathing, fishing, beekeeping, and wearing beards. For 10 points, name this tsar of Russia who built on the Baltic Sea the city of St. Petersburg.
This man founded the Kunstkamera Museum of curiosities and ordered all stillborn babies with birth defects to be sent there for display.
Peter the Great [or Peter I of Russia; or Pyotr Alekseyevich; or Pyotr Veliky; prompt on Peter; prompt on Pyotr]