After working as a shipbuilder in Europe, he captured Azov with his newly-built Imperial Navy.
This man's reign saw the Bulavin Rebellion and Fedor Golovin's failed Grand Embassy. His half-sister Sophia led a rebellion of soldiers upset with his progressive reforms, the Streltsy Uprising. He divided his nation into eight guberniia, each further divided into uzeda. After working as a shipbuilder in Europe, he captured Azov with his newly-built Imperial Navy. His second wife, Catherine I, took over upon his death, and he won the Battle of Poltava against Charles XII's Sweden in the Great Northern War. For 10 points, name this westernizing Russian Tsar who built a new capital city in honor of a saint with whom he shared a name.
This man's reign saw the Bulavin Rebellion and Fedor Golovin's failed Grand Embassy.
{Peter I} or {Peter} the {Great} of Russia