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Russia in the Age of Peter the Great (Updated Edition) by Dr. Lindsey Hughes, Lindsay Hughes Paperback, 640 Pages, Published 2000 ISBN-10: 0-300-08266-5 / 0300082665 ISBN-13: 978-0-300-08266-1 / 9780300082661 Peter the Great, often known as the Tsar Reformer, initiated a program of modernization and Westernization that affected the lives of all his subjects. He founded a new capital, St. Petersburg, which became a symbol of cultural change, and a navy, which signaled Russia’s emergence as a maritime powe |