# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-the-great
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:39:34.506Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-the-great"
name: "Peter the Great"
slug: "peter-the-great"
description: "He turned Russia from an isolated tsardom into an empire by sheer force of will — dragging it through wars, administrative overhaul, and a cultural revolution that replaced medieval tradition with Enlightenment rationality. The tsar who built a new capital on a swamp and made Europe take notice."
tagline: "Tsar/Emperor of Russia from 1682 to 1725"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Inconnu_d'apr%C3%A8s_J.-M._Nattier%2C_Portrait_de_Pierre_Ier_(mus%C3%A9e_de_l%E2%80%99Ermitage).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1672-05-30"
deathDate: "1725-01-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           31.290036
  currentAttention:     9.25
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 81
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platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Peter I became Tsar of all Russia in 1682, ruling jointly with his half-brother Ivan V until 1696. Much of his reign was consumed by wars against the Ottoman and Swedish empires; after victory in the Great Northern War, Russia annexed a significant portion of the eastern Baltic coastline and was officially raised to an empire in 1721. He organized a well-ordered police state and led a cultural revolution that replaced traditionalist systems with modern, scientific, Westernized ones based on the Enlightenment. In 1703, on the shores of the Neva River, he founded Saint Petersburg — later dubbed a "window to the West" — and relocated the capital there from Moscow in 1712. He introduced the Julian calendar in 1699, launched Russia's first newspaper, reformed the alphabet, promoted industrialization and higher education, and created administrative structures like the Governing Senate and Table of Ranks that shaped Russian government for generations. He died in 1725, having transformed his country into a major European power.