"A ruler that has but an army has one hand, but he who has a navy has both."
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Attributed in Way a River Went: Following the Volga Through the Heart of Russia (2015), by Thom Wheeler, p. 163
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Peter I of Russia
Pyotr Alexeevich Romanov (June 9, 1672 – February 8, 1725), also known as Peter the Great, was a Russian monarch. He carried out a policy of Westernization and expansion that transformed the Tsardom of Russia into the Russian Empire, a major European power.
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