If Vlad Really Wants to Emulate Peter the Great, He'll Have to Grow a Foot Taller
Depending on the source, Vlad (the Impaler) Putin is either 5'7" (170 cm) or a 5'5" (165 cm) fellow who wears lifts in his shoes. Conversely, Peter the Great is said to have been 6'8" (203 cm). But Vlad also falls short, as usual, in the history department, recently telling a group of scientists and entrepreneurs "You might think he was fighting with Sweden, seizing their lands," Putin said, referring to the Northern Wars which Peter launched in 1700, lasting until 1721, as h