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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 8149096, member: 12789&quot;]Petr I generally is held in high regard because of his pro-European westernization.&nbsp; What many other than academics know about him is minimal.&nbsp; He condemned his sister Sofia to a convent, also his first wife Eudoxia was similarly condemned.&nbsp; He lived with a Lithuanian peasant girl for years outside of marriage while he was still legally married to Eudoxia - he would later marry the peasant girl and she would become Ekaterina I after Petr&#039;s death in 1725.&nbsp; While all this was going on, his son Aleksei from his first marriage was traipsing around Europe with a girlfriend ignoring his father&#039;s orders.&nbsp; He was lured back to Russia where Petr I is believed to have ordered his death.</p><p><br /></p><p>Petr I was no saint.&nbsp; But he did have the Russian mint issue the first decimal coinage - the first nation anywhere in the world to have done so.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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