Peter The Great
THE REVOLUTIONARY CZAR OF RUSSIA
Peter the First of Russia (more commonly known as ) was born the son of Alexis Michailovich Romanov and Natalia Cyrilovna Narishkina on June 9, 1672 in Moscow, Russia (2:242-243). Alexis was overjoyed, and a great gingerbread cake with the double eagle was made, cannons were fired, and bells rang all over the land (4:89). But at his birth, it was not known that he would be the future czar of Russia. It was not until later on, when the czar Alexis died in 1676 at the age of 47, leaving his son Feodor (son of his first wife, Maria Miloslavsky) the heir to the throne (4:89). Feodor was slightly retarded, and therefore very fragile. Bitter rivalries went ...
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and brutally murdered the supporters of his mother. Peter witnessed the brutal murders of Artemon Mateev, and Natalia¹s brother on the lawn of the Kremlin. It was then that Peter, his two small sisters, and his mother withdrew to the countryhouse of Czar Alexis in the village of Preobrazhenskoe outside Moscow. They returned to the Kremlin infrequently, where Peter and Ivan sat on their double throne, flanked by 12 giant guards with battle-axes. Warily Peter listened as his clever and relentlessly ambitious older half-sister Sophia (also daughter of Maria), acting as regent, whispered instructions to him through the curtain (4:90).
In the country, Peter was allowed to roam the fields and streets with the peasant boys, who were his close friends, playing soldier, and building forts on his home grounds. By the age of 12, he had learned masonry, shooting, hunting, and other games (4:90). Children from neighboring countryside’s heard of these games and soon came from Moscow ...
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in his rule:
“to break the bonds of inflexible customs of Muscovy and to lead his country into a new day which shall be better than this“(4:90).
He was determined to Westernize his country to close the gaps and heal the scars of the Mongol invasions. So, the very next year after the death of his half-brother Ivan, Peter set out to see Europe himself -- no Czar had ever set foot out of his dominions for over 600 years, or ever even seen the West. And the thought of the Czar leaving Russia deeply shook the entire country -- they feared that he might never return (4:90-91).
In March, 1697, led by Peter¹s Genevan general Lefort, a Grand Embassy of about 270 persons set out for ...
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