Researching Peter Great
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The name Peter means "A Rock" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Peter Great on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Peter Great and the Great Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Great Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Great family tree.
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Great Family Tree Databases
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Great Forums
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Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Peter Great. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Peter Great
Peter the Great
Peter the Great, Peter I or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( – ) ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from until his death in 1725, jointly ruling before 1696 with his elder half-brother, Ivan V.
Through a number of successful wars, he captured ports at Azov and the Baltic Sea, laying the groundwork for the Imperial Russian Navy, ending uncontested Swedish supremacy in the Baltic and beginning the Tsardom's expansion into a much larger empire that became a major European power. He led a cultural revolution that replaced some of the traditionalist and medieval social and political systems with ones that were modern, scientific, Westernised and based on the Enlightenment. Peter's reforms had a lasting impact on Russia, and many institutions of the Russian government trace their origins to his reign. He adopted the title of Emperor in place of the old title of Tsar in 1721, and founded and developed the city of Saint Petersburg, which remained the capital of Russia until 1917.
However, the formation of local elites domestically was not his main priority, and the first Russian university was founded only a year before his death, in 1724. The second one was founded 30 years after his death, during the reign of his daughter Elizabeth.
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