Death of Peter the Great
February 8, 1725
The tsar who had built St. Petersburg, shaved the boyars' beards, cut open cadavers, built a navy, killed his own son, and dragged Russia toward Europe died at fifty-two, probably of uremia, probably after a final heroic act of wading into the Gulf of Finland to save drowning sailors. His empire survived him.
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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