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Since the ground was burned and everything was destroyed, Charles the 12th could not live off the land!
由于土地被烧，一切都被摧毁，查尔斯无法在那里生存
On June 28th, 1709, Russia defeated Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
1709年6月28日，俄罗斯在波尔塔瓦战役中大胜瑞典
Carried off the battlefield on a stretch, Charles the 12th fled to the Ottoman Empire where he was forced to stay for four years.
被人抢走了战场，查尔斯十二世不得不逃到奥斯曼土耳其帝国，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.
查尔斯回到瑞典后，准备重新攻打俄国，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，俄国与瑞典签订和平条约，这标志着瑞典失去了作为欧洲主要军事国家的地位
and it enabled Peter to begin calling himself not just Tsar or Ceasar, but the Emperor, Emperatur, of all Russia.
这也让彼得不仅仅称自己为沙皇，而是全俄罗斯的帝皇
When anyone refused to cooperate with his grand dreams, Peter was furious.
一旦有人拒绝配合他的宏图伟业，他就会勃然大怒
Peter thought nothing of personally cutting or pulling off the beards and caftans of Boyars who still went for that old Russian look.
彼得可没工夫亲自拔掉的波雅尔的胡子和剥掉他们的传统服饰，这些人依旧固守传统
Peter's oldest child, the Tsarevich Alexei was a great disappointment to him.
彼得的长子，萨利维奇·阿列克谢让他大为失望
Unlike Peter himself, who openly scorned religion, Alexei was very devout as a Christian,
他不像彼得那么公开地鄙视宗教，阿列克谢是一个虔诚的基督徒
and he did not want to secede Peter as Tsar.
而且他也不想继彼得之位成为沙皇
Peter couldn't understand this.
彼得完全无法理解
He hounded poor Alexei until Alexei escaped from Russia in 1716.
他不断地就此事纠缠阿列克谢，直到1716年阿列克谢逃出俄国
