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Since the ground was burned and everything was destroyed, Charles the 12th could not live off the land!
由于土地被燒，一切都被摧毀，查爾斯無法在那里生存
On June 28th, 1709, Russia defeated Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
1709年6月28日，俄羅斯在波爾塔瓦戰役中大勝瑞典
Carried off the battlefield on a stretch, Charles the 12th fled to the Ottoman Empire where he was forced to stay for four years.
被人搶走了戰場，查爾斯十二世不得不逃到奧斯曼土耳其帝國，被迫在那里生活了4年
Charles returned to Sweden and resumed the fight against Russia, but died frustrated in 1718.
查爾斯回到瑞典后，準備重新攻打俄國，但是于1718年抑郁而死
In 1721, Russia and Sweden signed a peace treaty, which marked Sweden's end as a major European military power,
1721年，俄國與瑞典簽訂和平條約，這標志著瑞典失去了作為歐洲主要軍事國家的地位
and it enabled Peter to begin calling himself not just Tsar or Ceasar, but the Emperor, Emperatur, of all Russia.
這也讓彼得不僅僅稱自己為沙皇，而是全俄羅斯的帝皇
When anyone refused to cooperate with his grand dreams, Peter was furious.
一旦有人拒絕配合他的宏圖偉業，他就會勃然大怒
Peter thought nothing of personally cutting or pulling off the beards and caftans of Boyars who still went for that old Russian look.
彼得可沒工夫親自拔掉的波雅爾的胡子和剝掉他們的傳統服飾，這些人依舊固守傳統
Peter's oldest child, the Tsarevich Alexei was a great disappointment to him.
彼得的長子，薩利維奇·阿列克謝讓他大為失望
Unlike Peter himself, who openly scorned religion, Alexei was very devout as a Christian,
他不像彼得那么公開地鄙視宗教，阿列克謝是一個虔誠的基督徒
and he did not want to secede Peter as Tsar.
而且他也不想繼彼得之位成為沙皇
Peter couldn't understand this.
彼得完全無法理解
He hounded poor Alexei until Alexei escaped from Russia in 1716.
他不斷地就此事糾纏阿列克謝，直到1716年阿列克謝逃出俄國
