MR. SCHUYLER’S Peter the Great, 1 which has finally appeared, is equally creditable to American typographical art and to American historical scholarship. A strict criticism might indeed complain that ...

Increasingly imbued with a mythology of destiny that his fate and Russia’s are inextricably linked, Vladimir Putin declared himself a modern Peter the Great on Thursday. Peter the Great was the early ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has compared himself to Peter the Great, comparing his invasion of Ukraine to the czar’s quest to “reclaim” Russian lands from neighboring countries. The Kremlin ...

Ever since he first seized the Russian presidency 20 years ago, a question has lingered around Vladimir Putin. Is he crazy, or not? The jury always seemed to be out. On the one hand, there were the ...

Of all of the colorful characters of pre-revolutionary Russia, two stand head and shoulders above the rest. These were, of course Peter the Great and his successor Catherine the Great, both of whom ...

Putin compared his actions in Ukraine to those of Peter the Great, Russia's first emperor. He said when the czar was at war with Sweden in the 18th century the land was rightfully Russia's. Putin said ...