Peter The Great 5
Your amazing deeds are your trophies. Entire Russia is your statue, reshaped by your expert skill, as pictured not in vain in your emblem; and the entire world is your poet, and the preacher of your glory. 1
Archbishop, Feofan Prokopovich is describing the past Tzar of Russia, Peter the Great and his influence on Russian society and the world. Peter's influence on the world and especially his country cannot easily be forgotten. He had great determination and goals for a modern and powerful Russia and was very efficient in their completion during his reign.
After having seen the greatness and glory of many of the Western European cities, Peter strove to make Russia one of these great ...
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because of his introduction of many Western European scientific, cultural and political practices.
Peter the Great was born on June 9, 1672, the son of Tzar Alexis I Makhailovich. 2 He succeeded the throne at the age of ten, when Tsar Theodore, Peter's half-brother, died. Even at such a young age, Peter had a great understanding of the upheavals occurring in Russia. It was this understanding that ultimately shaped his rule as Tzar of Russia. He was educated by private tutors in the palace, but was later removed by his mother to a suburban village where he was raised in relative freedom. These years, distance from the politics of Moscow, Peter was able to explore the technical skills and military maneuvers with which he was extremely fascinated.
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Before seizing his rightful place in the state, Peter fought with the Russian troops as an apprentice during the battle for Azov, and it was then that he saw the pressing need for greater military organization. During his ...
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was forced to return to Russia due to the upheavals of the streltsy, a branch of the Russian army:
The background to the renewed unrest among the streltsy was the widespread and deep-rooted dislike in Russia not only of Peter's policies but of the style and atmosphere of his rule. His desire to build a navy, his friendships with foreigners..., his European dress, the journey to the west, in a word his wholesale and brutal rejection of the traditional behavior proper to an orthodox Tsar aroused the deepest misgivings and
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resentment. During the months before he set out on the great journey to the west, there had been several manifestations of this.5
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