In later years Moscow became their secondary base, after Peter the Great founded his new capital St Petersburg.
Founded by the forward-thinking emperor, Peter the Great, the city has always been Russia's cultural capital.
Putin's role model isn't Stalin but Peter the Great (1672--1725), whose portrait hangs in his office.
From feral child to "human pet" at court in Georgian England, Peter the Wild Boy caused a sensation.
You're saying that we're responsible for giving Peter the courage to break away from Bjorn and John and to play on his own.
And exactly 300 years ago Peter the Great made a visit to the Tower's armoury during his extensive trip to Europe.
But Russia has confirmed that it will be sending the flagship of its Baltic fleet, the nuclear-powered cruiser Peter the Great.
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Peter the Great imported numerous military and technical experts from the West, but he maintained an iron political grip over his expanding empire.
Namely, the nuclear-powered heavy missile cruiser, Peter the Great, as well as the Admiral Chabanenko (an Anti-Submarine Warship) will be directly involved in the exercises.
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This has been a goal of Russian reformers since Peter the Great, and it's worth it for America to pay some price to help it occur.
Three centuries ago, when Peter the Great was trying to turn feudal, agrarian Russia into a modern state, he encountered a major source of friction inside the system.
He thinks that the Pacific Ocean could become for present-day Russia what the Baltic Sea was for the country in the age of Peter the Great: a source of wealth and a gate to modernity.
Prayers will be said on Sunday morning at a service dedicated to Drummer Rigby at St Peter the Apostle Roman Catholic Church, in Woolwich, as well as during a service at the town's St Mary Magdalene Parish Church.
His own roots are a mixture of aristocracy and poverty: his father was a caretaker in a chocolate factory, but he recently unearthed his (Polish) family crest and the site of an estate granted to his family by Peter the Great.
Back in 1719, when Russian Czar Peter the Great opened what is considered to be the first public museum, he displayed all sorts of natural and human rarities: exotic butterflies, skeletons and living specimens such as Foma the Lobster Boy.
" But pride and tension ensure that a pre-emptive strike on the Telmarine court is a fiasco. ("Peter the Impetuous" might be a more fitting moniker.) None of this is in Lewis, but the thwarted assault is the most exciting set piece in the picture and would not look out of place beside Peter Jackson's work in "Lord of the Rings.
"Each of us is therefore called to cooperate with the Successor of Peter, the visible foundation of such an ecclesial unity, " Sodano said.
"Each of us is therefore called to cooperate with the Successor of Peter, the visible foundation of such an ecclesial unity, " Cardinal Sodano said.
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"Peter embraced it, " she says, referring to the late Peter Marzio, the museum's director from 1982 through his death in December 2010.
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According to the Liberal Democrat AM Peter Black the budget process should be more transparent.
In the early hours of Thursday, 30 October 1975 she became the first victim of the Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper.
To the faithful, St Peter - the disciple and first pope - started the official church in Rome at the conclusion of his journey after Christ's Ascension.
With Julie Christie, Dustin Hoffman, and, in the role of a real Peter, the clear and unsentimental Freddie Highmore.
The end result was that Peter and the team were able to function effectively without being dragged down by bad feelings, jealousy, and awkward relationships.
Broadway veterans have high hopes for "Peter and the Starcatcher, " a Peter Pan prequel that sold out off-Broadway last year and is set to open on Broadway this spring.
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When the Board surprised everyone by promoting Peter to the top job, Stan immediately decided to take early retirement while Sarah agreed to stay on for the next year.
It does not say what this other "review" was, nor explain the reasons for excluding the information from a report meant to be a comprehensive account of all the contact "agencies" had with Peter in the year up to his death.
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The panel was also told it was "nonsense" for Dr Ikwueke to claim he could not now recall the details of more than dozen visits by Peter to the surgery.
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