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As the 3rd boy of the renowned Tsar Alexis, Peter the fantastic was never supposed to rule. But when his older sibling perished, the 10-year-old guy was proclaimed tsar by a cheering multitude outside the wall space of the Kremlin. His destiny looked assured-until a bloody rebellion erupted, forcing him to watch as his family was impaled and torn limb from limb by a mob of furious soldiers. From that day frontward, Peter was motivated to rip down the Old Muscovy and usher in a new Russia - dragging his backwards, traditional nobles into the 18th hundred years by their long, bushy beards when necessary. He became the first tsar to sail the ocean and the first Romanov to visit Europe. Ranking six feet, eight inches tall, Peter took Europe in his immense stride while laboring as one common carpenter in order to find out the abilities he had a need to modernize his army and build Russia's first navy. From his childhood activities in Moscow's German 1 / 4 to his earth-shaking win at the Struggle of Poltava, where he singlehandedly broke the trunk of the Swedish empire, the life span of Peter the fantastic was unlike that of other man of his time.
