📆 #OTD, 303 years ago, on November 2, 1721, Russian Tsar Peter the Great proclaimed Russia an empire.

🟣The new status cemented the power of the young state in the eyes of the world community, which had a powerful regular army and navy and had emerged victorious in the Great Northern War with Sweden less than two months earlier.

📝 As a result of the Treaty of Nystad signed on September 10, 1721, Russia legally secured its return to the Baltic Sea lost two centuries earlier.

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