Peter I
noun
1.
(“the Great”) 1672–1725, czar of Russia 1682–1725.
2.
(Peter Karageorgevich) 1844–1921, king of Serbia 1903–21.
noun
1.
known as Peter the Great. 1672–1725, tsar of Russia (1682–1725), who assumed sole power in 1689. He introduced many reforms in government, technology, and the western European ideas. He also acquired new territories for Russia in the Baltic and founded the new capital of St Petersburg (1703)
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