Peter the Great?

There was a documentary on TV tonight about Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia. He was the one who modernized Russia around 1700 and who defeated King Karl XII of Sweden, bringing an end to Sweden’s days as a great power. It was a well made documentary about this horrible subject. I guess it is as Daniel says: the world would have been better off without Peter the Great. Then the Lutheran Estonians, Latvians, Swedes, and Germans in the Baltics would have been ruled by the Lutheran Kingdom of Sweden instead of the Orthodox Empire of Russia. Sweden is also a much better country for dogs than Russia is.