1672 - 1725
Peter I (9 June [O.S. 30 May] 1672 – 8 February [O.S. 28 January] 1725), most commonly known as Peter the Great, was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from 7 May [O.S. 27 April] 1682 to 1721 and subsequently the Russian Empire until his death in 1725, jointly ruling with his elder half-brother, Ivan V until 1696. He is primarily credited with the modernisation of the country, transforming it into a European power. 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter the Great has received more than 8,663,508 page views. His biography is available in 133 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 132 in 2019). Peter the Great is the 48th most popular politician (down from 44th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Russia (up from 10th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Russian Politician.
Peter the Great was most famous for reforming Russia's government, military, and economy. He also expanded the country's territory by conquering new land.
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Among politicians, Peter the Great ranks 48 out of 15,577. Before him are Akhenaten, Pericles, Maria Theresa, Ulysses S. Grant, Nero, and Leon Trotsky. After him are Franklin D. Roosevelt, Angela Merkel, Saddam Hussein, Boris Yeltsin, Nebuchadnezzar II, and Nikita Khrushchev.
1400 BC - 1336 BC
HPI: 84.67
Rank: 42
494 BC - 429 BC
HPI: 84.49
Rank: 43
1717 - 1780
HPI: 84.31
Rank: 44
1822 - 1885
HPI: 84.29
Rank: 45
37 - 68
HPI: 84.29
Rank: 46
1879 - 1940
HPI: 84.04
Rank: 47
1672 - 1725
HPI: 83.99
Rank: 48
1882 - 1945
HPI: 83.98
Rank: 49
1954 - Present
HPI: 83.94
Rank: 50
1937 - 2006
HPI: 83.91
Rank: 51
1931 - 2007
HPI: 83.89
Rank: 52
630 BC - 562 BC
HPI: 83.85
Rank: 53
1894 - 1971
HPI: 83.74
Rank: 54
Among people born in 1672, Peter the Great ranks 1. After him are Joseph Addison, Pylyp Orlyk, Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Nicolas de Grigny, Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, André Cardinal Destouches, Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, and Richard Steele. Among people deceased in 1725, Peter the Great ranks 1. After him are Alessandro Scarlatti, Mahmud Hotak, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Arai Hakuseki, Christian August of Saxe-Zeitz, René de Froulay de Tessé, Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, José Benito de Churriguera, and Jonathan Wild.
1672 - 1725
HPI: 83.99
Rank: 1
1672 - 1719
HPI: 56.50
Rank: 2
1672 - 1742
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 3
1672 - 1750
HPI: 53.74
Rank: 4
1672 - 1733
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 5
1672 - 1703
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 6
1672 - 1724
HPI: 51.23
Rank: 7
1672 - 1749
HPI: 50.63
Rank: 8
1672 - 1723
HPI: 49.84
Rank: 9
1672 - 1729
HPI: 47.58
Rank: 10
1672 - 1725
HPI: 83.99
Rank: 1
1660 - 1725
HPI: 71.99
Rank: 2
1697 - 1725
HPI: 57.70
Rank: 3
1653 - 1725
HPI: 56.89
Rank: 4
1657 - 1725
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 5
1666 - 1725
HPI: 51.18
Rank: 6
1648 - 1725
HPI: 50.75
Rank: 7
1658 - 1725
HPI: 50.66
Rank: 8
1665 - 1725
HPI: 50.63
Rank: 9
1683 - 1725
HPI: 48.72
Rank: 10
Among people born in Russia, Peter the Great ranks 9 out of 3,262. Before him are Vladimir Putin (1952), Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821), Leo Tolstoy (1828), Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Yuri Gagarin (1934), and Dmitri Mendeleev (1834). After him are Boris Yeltsin (1931), Anton Chekhov (1860), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), and Ivan the Terrible (1530).
1952 - Present
HPI: 88.82
Rank: 3
1821 - 1881
HPI: 88.66
Rank: 4
1828 - 1910
HPI: 86.31
Rank: 5
1931 - 2022
HPI: 86.13
Rank: 6
1934 - 1968
HPI: 85.94
Rank: 7
1834 - 1907
HPI: 85.55
Rank: 8
1672 - 1725
HPI: 83.99
Rank: 9
1931 - 2007
HPI: 83.89
Rank: 10
1860 - 1904
HPI: 83.77
Rank: 11
1894 - 1971
HPI: 83.74
Rank: 12
1868 - 1918
HPI: 83.34
Rank: 13
1840 - 1893
HPI: 83.33
Rank: 14
1530 - 1584
HPI: 82.61
Rank: 15
Among politicians born in Russia, Peter the Great ranks 4. Before him are Vladimir Lenin (1870), Vladimir Putin (1952), and Mikhail Gorbachev (1931). After him are Boris Yeltsin (1931), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Ivan the Terrible (1530), Kim Jong-il (1941), Alexander I of Russia (1777), Nicholas I of Russia (1796), and Alexander III of Russia (1845).
1870 - 1924
HPI: 89.94
Rank: 1
1952 - Present
HPI: 88.82
Rank: 2
1931 - 2022
HPI: 86.13
Rank: 3
1672 - 1725
HPI: 83.99
Rank: 4
1931 - 2007
HPI: 83.89
Rank: 5
1894 - 1971
HPI: 83.74
Rank: 6
1868 - 1918
HPI: 83.34
Rank: 7
1530 - 1584
HPI: 82.61
Rank: 8
1941 - 2011
HPI: 79.58
Rank: 9
1777 - 1825
HPI: 78.54
Rank: 10
1796 - 1855
HPI: 78.23
Rank: 11
1845 - 1894
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 12