St. Petersburg - The Great Leader of the Russian Empire

In 17 15, in the midst of still fighting with sweden, peter sent a spy into sweden to study their administration and state apparatus. In 17 21, the great northern war ended after 20 years with an exhausted sweden suing for peace. The result was that the baltic territories peter had seized were confirmed, along with new lands in livonia and ukraine. And those livonian territories brought german lutherans under the sovereignty of the czar for the first time. To celebrate all this, peter made the grand proclamation that transformed the state officially, from the czardom of russia into the russian empire.