1672 - 1725
Peter the Great (Russian: Пётр Вели́кий, tr. Pyotr Velíkiy, IPA: [ˈpʲɵtr vʲɪˈlʲikʲɪj]), Peter I or Pyotr Alekséyevich (Russian: Пётр Алексе́евич, IPA: [ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ]; 9 June [O.S. 30 May] 1672 – 8 February [O.S. 28 January] 1725) was a monarch of the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 7 May [O.S. 27 April] 1682 until his death in 1725, jointly ruling before 1696 with his elder half-brother, Ivan V. Under his reign, Russia was modernised and grew 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 7,586,766 page views. His biography is available in 132 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 131 in 2019). Peter the Great is the 44th most popular politician (down from 40th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Russia and the 3rd 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 44 out of 15,710. Before him are Huang Xianfan, Qin Shi Huang, David, Richard III of England, Maria Theresa, and Martin Van Buren. After him are John F. Kennedy, Fidel Castro, Leon Trotsky, Josip Broz Tito, Caligula, and Hillary Clinton.
1899 - 1982
HPI: 88.19
Rank: 38
258 BC - 210 BC
HPI: 88.05
Rank: 39
1010 BC - 970 BC
HPI: 87.99
Rank: 40
1452 - 1485
HPI: 87.93
Rank: 41
1717 - 1780
HPI: 87.91
Rank: 42
1782 - 1862
HPI: 87.89
Rank: 43
1672 - 1725
HPI: 87.89
Rank: 44
1917 - 1963
HPI: 87.77
Rank: 45
1926 - 2016
HPI: 87.77
Rank: 46
1879 - 1940
HPI: 87.77
Rank: 47
1892 - 1980
HPI: 87.76
Rank: 48
12 - 41
HPI: 87.76
Rank: 49
1947 - Present
HPI: 87.74
Rank: 50
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, André Cardinal Destouches, Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Richard Steele. Among people deceased in 1725, Peter the Great ranks 1. After him are Alessandro Scarlatti, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Mahmud Hotak, Arai Hakuseki, Jonathan Wild, José Benito de Churriguera, and Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani.
1672 - 1725
HPI: 87.89
Rank: 1
1672 - 1719
HPI: 68.36
Rank: 2
1672 - 1742
HPI: 65.83
Rank: 3
1672 - 1750
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 4
1672 - 1733
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 5
1672 - 1703
HPI: 63.18
Rank: 6
1672 - 1749
HPI: 62.89
Rank: 7
1672 - 1724
HPI: 61.80
Rank: 8
1672 - 1729
HPI: 60.42
Rank: 9
1672 - 1725
HPI: 87.89
Rank: 1
1660 - 1725
HPI: 78.76
Rank: 2
1653 - 1725
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 3
1697 - 1725
HPI: 66.88
Rank: 4
1657 - 1725
HPI: 63.09
Rank: 5
1683 - 1725
HPI: 62.92
Rank: 6
1665 - 1725
HPI: 62.24
Rank: 7
1658 - 1725
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 8
Among people born in Russia, Peter the Great ranks 10 out of 2,688. Before him are Leo Tolstoy (1828), Mikhail Gorbachev (1931), Yuri Gagarin (1934), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), Dmitri Mendeleev (1834), and Anton Chekhov (1860). After him are Alexander Pushkin (1799), Vladimir Putin (1952), Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Ivan the Terrible (1530), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), and Ivan Pavlov (1849).
1828 - 1910
HPI: 90.13
Rank: 4
1931 - Present
HPI: 89.08
Rank: 5
1934 - 1968
HPI: 88.58
Rank: 6
1840 - 1893
HPI: 88.38
Rank: 7
1834 - 1907
HPI: 88.11
Rank: 8
1860 - 1904
HPI: 88.01
Rank: 9
1672 - 1725
HPI: 87.89
Rank: 10
1799 - 1837
HPI: 87.86
Rank: 11
1952 - Present
HPI: 87.64
Rank: 12
1868 - 1918
HPI: 87.21
Rank: 13
1530 - 1584
HPI: 86.75
Rank: 14
1894 - 1971
HPI: 86.69
Rank: 15
1849 - 1936
HPI: 86.11
Rank: 16
Among politicians born in Russia, Peter the Great ranks 3. Before him are Vladimir Lenin (1870) and Mikhail Gorbachev (1931). After him are Vladimir Putin (1952), Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Ivan the Terrible (1530), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Boris Yeltsin (1931), Kim Jong-il (1941), Alexander I of Russia (1777), Nicholas I of Russia (1796), and Alexander III of Russia (1845).
1870 - 1924
HPI: 92.52
Rank: 1
1931 - Present
HPI: 89.08
Rank: 2
1672 - 1725
HPI: 87.89
Rank: 3
1952 - Present
HPI: 87.64
Rank: 4
1868 - 1918
HPI: 87.21
Rank: 5
1530 - 1584
HPI: 86.75
Rank: 6
1894 - 1971
HPI: 86.69
Rank: 7
1931 - 2007
HPI: 85.73
Rank: 8
1941 - 2011
HPI: 85.08
Rank: 9
1777 - 1825
HPI: 83.26
Rank: 10
1796 - 1855
HPI: 82.39
Rank: 11
1845 - 1894
HPI: 82.31
Rank: 12