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Peter the Great
1724 - Saint Petersburg
State-building, incompletion, and fury at relapse.
A tsar who dragged Russia into the modern world now watches lesser men prepare to undo everything.
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Peter the Great
1724 - Saint Petersburg
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State-building, incompletion, and fury at relapse.
A tsar who dragged Russia into the modern world now watches lesser men prepare to undo everything.
- 1726