Peter The Great, The Physically Enormous Czar Who Modernized Russia
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Date: 2022-12-29
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schizoidboy
One thing I heard about Peter the Great was his military education. He started as a boy playing war games, but his games involved real weapons and in the beginning he started out as a drummer boy, however, as he learned how to use weapons he promoted himself. These games were not just kids playing soldier. He took these games very seriously and in some instances people got killed in them. These war games would prepare him for fighting against Sweden years later against the Swedish King Charles who was also a proficient soldier. Missed here was how Peter died. He dove in some freezing water to save a soldier and the exposure killed him.
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One thing I heard about Peter the Great was his military education. He started as a boy playing war games, but his games involved real weapons and in the beginning he started out as a drummer boy, however, as he learned how to use weapons he promoted himself. These games were not just kids playing soldier. He took these games very seriously and in some instances people got killed in them. These war games would prepare him for fighting against Sweden years later against the Swedish King Charles who was also a proficient soldier. Missed here was how Peter died. He dove in some freezing water to save a soldier and the exposure killed him.
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GravesRWFiA
part of the issue for the old believers was that the reforms were brought in in the year 1666. -six six six. more importantly hold up three fingers for a blessing as opposed to two- it is uncomfortable now imagine how it woudl feel if you were a malnourished peasant,
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part of the issue for the old believers was that the reforms were brought in in the year 1666. -six six six. more importantly hold up three fingers for a blessing as opposed to two- it is uncomfortable now imagine how it woudl feel if you were a malnourished peasant,
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Channel
Peter the Great provides a stark contrast with the majority of Romanov tsars, who tended to focus on expanding their realm south and east while not fundamentally changing a country that struck many people of the time as two or three centuries behind the times.
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Peter the Great provides a stark contrast with the majority of Romanov tsars, who tended to focus on expanding their realm south and east while not fundamentally changing a country that struck many people of the time as two or three centuries behind the times.
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Peter
Tsar Peter learned how to build warships from the Dutch.
We are sorry and apologise to the world that we learned him anything.
But looking at the performance of the Moskva submarine, his great great grandsons fortunately didn't get much from it.
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Tsar Peter learned how to build warships from the Dutch.
We are sorry and apologise to the world that we learned him anything.
But looking at the performance of the Moskva submarine, his great great grandsons fortunately didn't get much from it.
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Trudy
Peter the great was not nearly nearly 7' tall he was 6' 8 that's a whole 4 another inches before you hit 7' that's almost half a foot why didn't you say he was over 6 and a 1/2 feet tall that would be less of a lie than what you said
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Peter the great was not nearly nearly 7' tall he was 6' 8 that's a whole 4 another inches before you hit 7' that's almost half a foot why didn't you say he was over 6 and a 1/2 feet tall that would be less of a lie than what you said
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Mary
Interesting to hear this. St. Petersburg was the birthplace and home of my late husband who, when he was born, the city was called Leningrad. He and his family were finally able to leave when he was 17 years old.
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Interesting to hear this. St. Petersburg was the birthplace and home of my late husband who, when he was born, the city was called Leningrad. He and his family were finally able to leave when he was 17 years old.
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Megan
Wow! Imagine being the first leader of a country with such a long history to leave the country. I guess it explains the isolationist impulses that still seem to be entrenched in some elements of the society.
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Wow! Imagine being the first leader of a country with such a long history to leave the country. I guess it explains the isolationist impulses that still seem to be entrenched in some elements of the society.
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Mohammad
So his only redeeming qualities were that he was tall, jacked, and helped out the ship builders despite being emperor. The cultural modernist reforms were disappointing. Beard gang
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So his only redeeming qualities were that he was tall, jacked, and helped out the ship builders despite being emperor. The cultural modernist reforms were disappointing. Beard gang
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Iga
ehh, I heard once that Catherine the Great had intercourses with horses (horses for courses) and that she even possibly died under a stallion. Is there an element of truth in it?
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ehh, I heard once that Catherine the Great had intercourses with horses (horses for courses) and that she even possibly died under a stallion. Is there an element of truth in it?
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Carrie
From The Nutcracker to The Great Gate of Kiev.
You thought I wouldn't notice, didn't you, Weird History? I'm always listening for the unexpected, .
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From The Nutcracker to The Great Gate of Kiev.
You thought I wouldn't notice, didn't you, Weird History? I'm always listening for the unexpected, .
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Jeanette
I'd love it if you'd post another almost identical video without the big assed jokes about big assed Peter, so I can send this video to 2-5th graders
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I'd love it if you'd post another almost identical video without the big assed jokes about big assed Peter, so I can send this video to 2-5th graders
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Amy
This video came at just the right time lol. I am currently reading a fictional account of Peters second wife Catherines life. Very interesting
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This video came at just the right time lol. I am currently reading a fictional account of Peters second wife Catherines life. Very interesting
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Lexi
Ivan was older than Peter, and Peter had two surviving daughters, Anna and Elizabeth, with the son of Anna becoming the heir to Elizabeth. .
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Ivan was older than Peter, and Peter had two surviving daughters, Anna and Elizabeth, with the son of Anna becoming the heir to Elizabeth. .
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OTYSb
Would totally throw down for some So What Do You Think? merch! Or any at alllllllL, you guys are certainly a highlight of the week -
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Would totally throw down for some So What Do You Think? merch! Or any at alllllllL, you guys are certainly a highlight of the week -
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Odonna
Would you consider doing an episode about Barba Rossa, who was a mercenary soldier in the 1500s and worked with Turkish invaders?
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Would you consider doing an episode about Barba Rossa, who was a mercenary soldier in the 1500s and worked with Turkish invaders?
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SHAYSOVA
You should do an episode on the show the great its inaccurate so maybe get into the facts they muddled? Could be fun.
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You should do an episode on the show the great its inaccurate so maybe get into the facts they muddled? Could be fun.
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TheFox&TheRabbit
love this one! thank you, Shaka Zulu sometime? 2 of my favorite historic kings just very interesting. tyvm
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love this one! thank you, Shaka Zulu sometime? 2 of my favorite historic kings just very interesting. tyvm
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Kevin
Between Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and Nicholas the II, being the son of a Czar was going to get you killed.
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Between Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and Nicholas the II, being the son of a Czar was going to get you killed.
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New
Peter's coming to town for an official visit. I hope he likes my beard. Cross your fingers, eh? No! Not like that!
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Peter's coming to town for an official visit. I hope he likes my beard. Cross your fingers, eh? No! Not like that!
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equus
Peter wasn't physically enormous
He had gigantism
He would have been a sideshow freak instead of a czar
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Peter wasn't physically enormous
He had gigantism
He would have been a sideshow freak instead of a czar
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