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| | Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Peter the Great (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Peter was an extraordinarily tall and powerful man, at six foot seven inches (2.04 meters), with large, green and ambitious eyes that showed his desire and desperation to turn Russia into the great modern Empire that it once was. |
 | | Peter, the son of Aleksei Mikhailovich of Russia and his second wife, Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, was born in Moscow. |
 | | Aleksei I went on to have two further daughters by Nataliya Naryshkina--Anna, who died in her twenties, and Elizabeth, who took the throne of Russia 1741-1761, before dying in 1676, to be succeeded by his eldest surviving son, who became Fyodor III. |
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