Peter the Great is compared to the modern equivalent Vladimir Putin.
Peter the Great (Peter I) (1672-1725) Tsar of Russia (1682-1725) is the son of Tsar Alexi I. Peter succeeded the Co-Tsar Fyodor III and Ivan IV. Vladimir Putin (1952-) President of Russia
(2012-) succeeded Dmitry Medvedev. Peter I would be a much better modern leader of Russia because he cared for the wellbeing of his people.
Peter I, who was formerly known as Peter the Great after defeating Sweden in the Great Northern war in 1721. Although recent scholarship has modified this view somewhat, pointing out the antecedents of his reforms and the unchanged reality of Russia as a state built on the pillars of agriculture, few would challenge the defining character of the Petrine era for Russia’s subsequent sense of its own modernity. By the time of Peter’s accession in 1682, Muscovy had become a vast and sprawling realm, subsuming most …show more content…
It lacked access to the Baltic sea, to the North and the Black sea, and suffered on the southern steppe border from debilitating raids by nomadic and pastoral peoples. In pursuit of Baltic presence, Peter clashed with Charles XII of Sweden and became enmeshed in the Great Northern War. Biographies of Peter emphasize his untraditional upbringing in the suburban Muscovite village of Preobrazhensky. removed from the confines of the Moscow Kremlin, he spent much of his boyhood playing at war, in the company of commoners and foreigners rather than churchmen and the scions of aristocratic families, as had been the norm. Peter’s height, over six and a half feet tall, and energy, his unquenchable curiosity in particular for practical
Peter the Great (Peter I) (1672-1725) Tsar of Russia (1682-1725) is the son of Tsar Alexi I. Peter succeeded the Co-Tsar Fyodor III and Ivan IV. Vladimir Putin (1952-) President of Russia
(2012-) succeeded Dmitry Medvedev. Peter I would be a much better modern leader of Russia because he cared for the wellbeing of his people.
Peter I, who was formerly known as Peter the Great after defeating Sweden in the Great Northern war in 1721. Although recent scholarship has modified this view somewhat, pointing out the antecedents of his reforms and the unchanged reality of Russia as a state built on the pillars of agriculture, few would challenge the defining character of the Petrine era for Russia’s subsequent sense of its own modernity. By the time of Peter’s accession in 1682, Muscovy had become a vast and sprawling realm, subsuming most …show more content…
It lacked access to the Baltic sea, to the North and the Black sea, and suffered on the southern steppe border from debilitating raids by nomadic and pastoral peoples. In pursuit of Baltic presence, Peter clashed with Charles XII of Sweden and became enmeshed in the Great Northern War. Biographies of Peter emphasize his untraditional upbringing in the suburban Muscovite village of Preobrazhensky. removed from the confines of the Moscow Kremlin, he spent much of his boyhood playing at war, in the company of commoners and foreigners rather than churchmen and the scions of aristocratic families, as had been the norm. Peter’s height, over six and a half feet tall, and energy, his unquenchable curiosity in particular for practical