Does Putin see himself as the successor to Tsar Peter the Great? ‘He took back what belonged to Russia’ | Abroad

Russian President Vladimir Putin paid tribute to Peter the Great on his 350th birthday on Thursday, speaking of a historic goal he and the Tsar share: “to reclaim Russian lands.” Putin even compared the war in Ukraine to the conquests of Peter the Great. But who was that tsar anyway? And is Putin just as bad?