Fighting the Turks at Azov, the dramatization shows soldiers using precussion caps. In 1695 they would have been using flintlocks or perhaps wheel locks, would they not?
A question for anyone who watched the program on History Channel International; did it seem to you that the women lecturers seemed to think Peter was pretty cool, while the men were quick to admit what a mean son of a bitch he was?
I’d say so - percussion caps were a much later innovation.