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to rule with unlimited authority 
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the capital city built on the Baltic Coast 
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the adoptioon of Western ideas, technology and culture 
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used his power to put Russia on the road to becoming a great modern power 
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divide up 
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a port to be free of ice all year long 
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landowning nobles 
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Energetic empress, began sponsered education 
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