Inquisitive person, receptive to everything new, as we have already said, he wanted to see everything with his own eyes and learn everything. He became the first ruler of russia to leave the territory of his state; he was especially interested in shipbuilding. The embassy stayed the longest in holland. Amsterdam was completely different from russian cities, and made a huge impression on the tsar. Peter worked for some time as a carpenter in the dutch. This is true , then peter went to england, where he continued to study, worked at the shipyard, went to museums, visited the grenwich observatory, and is believed to have met isaac newton. Already returning from the Great Embassy to moscow, peter met with the saxon electorate augustus the strong, and he suggested to him a new direction of foreign policy, swedish. They agreed on a military alliance, peter made peace with the turks. And declared war on sweden. The main goal of the northern war, which began in 1700 and lasted 21 years, was a
Worlds poorest countries. Riot Police Crackdown on Gang Violence in brazil the on grass is the first test of new president charcoals an arms hardline law and order policies. Im soo nice to have you with us the newly founded Ukrainian Orthodox church is holding its first Christmas Mass in the capital of the Service Comes just hours after Church Leaders formally received a decree of independence at a ceremony in istanbul ending more than three centuries of russian influence and ukraines president Petro Poroshenko had campaigned for the split which as a provoked anger in moscow. Lets bring in matthew cook for a journalist with the kiev post he joins us from the ukrainian capital for more on the story matthew thank you very much for joining us now this is a pretty significant day of the first mass of an independent Ukrainian Orthodox church after more than three centuries of russian control tell us more about the lead up to the split. Good evening thank you for having me this is been a ver
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