Peter the Great Proclaimed Emperor
October 22, 1721
After twenty-one years of war, the Russian Senate bestowed upon Peter the titles Emperor and 'the Great.' The tsar had dragged his country westward by the collar - building a navy, shaving boyars' beards, raising Petersburg from a swamp. Russia was no longer a distant Muscovite curiosity. It was a European great power.
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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