At 43 years, the reign of this founder of the Russian navy was the longest of any czar
.... More than 200 metallurgical enterprises 
opened during the reign of Peter the Great, made Russia the ... that went down to 
history, was a Potlavskaya battle in the year 1709 when the Russian army ... 
Peter the Great was the founder of the Russian Naval school, which produced 
such... [DOC] [TLE] The Great Northern War - Russian Navy [PAR] Russia had no ships on the Baltic and was struggling to gain entrance into this ... 
supremacy against what the Swedes considered