Peter the Great: The Rise of Russia (TRIH ep 562, part 1)
1682 · Resource
This episode introduces Peter I (Peter the Great) and the geopolitical context of late 17th‑century Russia. Holland and Sandbrook trace Peter’s birth (1672), family rivalries between the Naryshkin and Miloslavsky clans, and the brutal Moscow/Streltsy uprising of May 1682 that massacred many of Peter’s relatives and led to the joint reign of Peter and his half‑brother Ivan V under the regency of their sister Sophia.
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Around 1682
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Walpole's premiership (1721)
- Qing dynasty (1644)