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Wrestling Russia Wrestling Russia Into The WestInto The West
Apotheosis of Peter the GreatApotheosis of Peter the Great
Wrestling Russia Into The Wrestling Russia Into The WestWest
Apotheosis of Peter the Great (1710) by Dagli Orti
Peter the Great’s Peter the Great’s story begins in the story begins in the 1616thth century with century with Boris Godunov and his Boris Godunov and his Romanov cousinsRomanov cousins
The Romanov Dynasty The Romanov Dynasty was founded in 1613 was founded in 1613 with Mikhail with Mikhail Feodorovich RomanovFeodorovich Romanov
The Romanovs were The Romanovs were able to stabilize able to stabilize RussiaRussia
Romanov DynastyRomanov Dynasty
The Streltsy uprising of April-May 1682 made it possible for his cousin Sophia to insist that Peter and his half-brother Ivan be proclaimed joint Tsars, with Sophia acting as regent Early Early
YearsYears
Peter the Great’s sheer physical presence seemed to indicate the way his rule would go
Nearly 7 feet tall and very broad
“powerful, loud-mouthed, violent, and impetuous”
No manners whatsoever and did not consider them necessary
Physical PresencePhysical Presence
Peter never lost his Peter never lost his love of ship-building, love of ship-building, much to the chagrin much to the chagrin of King William III of of King William III of OrangeOrange
King William King William presented Peter with presented Peter with a yacht and ordered a yacht and ordered naval maneuvers in naval maneuvers in his honorhis honor
Ship Ship BuildingBuilding
The The Most Drunken Most Drunken Synod of Fools and Synod of Fools and JestersJesters was created was created in 1695in 1695
The first The first commandment was commandment was that members were that members were to get drunk every to get drunk every day, and might day, and might never go sober to never go sober to bedbed
Party On, DudeParty On, Dude
Traveled to Europe on Traveled to Europe on an 18-month journey an 18-month journey with a large Russian with a large Russian delegation called the delegation called the “Grand Embassy” to “Grand Embassy” to seek the aid of the seek the aid of the European monarchsEuropean monarchs
Worked in the largest Worked in the largest shipyard in the world, shipyard in the world, belonging to the belonging to the Dutch East India Dutch East India Company, for a period Company, for a period of four monthsof four months Grand Grand
EmbassyEmbassy
In March of 1698, In March of 1698, 175 Streltsy left 175 Streltsy left their regiments and their regiments and fled to Moscow to fled to Moscow to file a complaintfile a complaint
Peter ordered four Peter ordered four regiments of 2300 regiments of 2300 men to attack the men to attack the StreltsyStreltsy
Revolt of the StreltsyRevolt of the Streltsy
In the year 7207 of In the year 7207 of the old Russian the old Russian calendar, Peter calendar, Peter proclaimed that the proclaimed that the Julian Calendar Julian Calendar was in effect and was in effect and the year was 1700the year was 1700
In the early 18In the early 18thth century, Peter the century, Peter the Great simplified Great simplified and regularized the and regularized the Cyrillic AlphabetCyrillic AlphabetModern Modern
ChangesChanges
Peter staged a war Peter staged a war against the Swedish against the Swedish king Charles XII in king Charles XII in the early 1700s to try the early 1700s to try and gain land for his and gain land for his dreamdream
Though the war was Though the war was going poorly, Peter going poorly, Peter took the strange step took the strange step of beginning of beginning construction construction while the while the war was still going onwar was still going on
St. PetersburgSt. Petersburg
It was a servant girl It was a servant girl by the name of by the name of Martha Skavronskaya Martha Skavronskaya who ultimately who ultimately captured Peter’s heartcaptured Peter’s heart
Their first marriage Their first marriage was in secret, but was in secret, but Peter valued Peter valued Catherine and Catherine and proceeded to marry proceeded to marry her again officially in her again officially in St. Petersburg in St. Petersburg in February 1712February 1712 A Servant A Servant
GirlGirl
The Table of Ranks, as The Table of Ranks, as it was called, divided it was called, divided government service government service into three vertical into three vertical columns: military, civil columns: military, civil and courtsand courts
As the grid layout As the grid layout made plain, one of the made plain, one of the purposes was to purposes was to correlate status across correlate status across different branches of different branches of serviceservice
Table of RanksTable of Ranks
It would be a distant It would be a distant relative in Catharine relative in Catharine II “the Great” who II “the Great” who would accomplish would accomplish moremore
Modernization of Modernization of agriculture and agriculture and industry, foreign industry, foreign investment, and investment, and encouraging encouraging education for the education for the middle classmiddle classCatharine the Catharine the
GreatGreat