Peter the Great: Misc

the walls of Peter the Great's first "palace" in the nascent St Petersburg, a 60 m² (650 sq ft) log cabin, were painted to resemble brickwork?
after Peter the Great's reform of the Russian military, serf recruits, and their children born after the recruitment, were liberated, with the boys being sent to specially created garrison schools?
Peter the Great's eldest daughter, Anna Petrovna, died in childbirth aged 20, but all the living Romanovs descend from her?

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Peter the Great (June 9, 1672 - February 8, 1725) was a Human from Earth who lived during the 17th and 18th centuries. From 1682 until his death, he ruled the Russian Empire as Tsar Peter I.

When attending a briefing given by Captain James T. Kirk and Commander Spock regarding Sherman's Planet, Pavel Chekov remarked that the situation reminded him of one that Peter the Great once encountered. However, before Chekov could explain further, the briefing was interrupted by Deep Space Station K-7 putting out a code one priority alert. (TOS episode: The Trouble with Tribbles).

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