On August 18, 1682 Peter the Great ascended the throne of the #Russian Kingdom. Peter I the Great was an outstanding statesman, the #Moscow Tsar from the Romanov dynasty, the All-Russian Emperor since 1721, a great reformer. Under him, #Russia became the Russian Empire and global and important changes took place in the state. The foreign policy of Peter the Great was focused on finding allies in the war with the Ottoman Empire. For this purpose, Peter went to #Europe. In domestic policy