Zurab Tsereteli, famed for sculptures including Moscow’s Peter the Great and the UN’s Good Defeats Evil, has died at 91 Read ...

Czar Peter the Great of Russia casts a long shadow over history. A giant of a man, with appetites for learning and adventure to match, he did more to modernize his country than pretty much any ...

He was known for gigantic and often controversial monuments, including some taller than the Statue of Liberty.

The fleet is made up of "the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser Pyotr Veliky (Peter the Great), the anti-submarine warship Admiral Chebanenko and other accompanying ships" said Russian Navy ...

Peter ruled from 1682 to ... Catherine II, or Catherine the Great , (ruled 1762 Ü1769) brought European neoclassical art and architecture to Russia, and French culture and language dominated ...