Peter The Great: Peter The Great

Many historians describe Peter I as an outstanding politician, a bright mind, fair and democratic king, whose reign was so eventful and contradictory, that became the subject for the huge number of scientific works, popular science and fiction. At the time, even the cult of monarch was created. Personally, I think that Peter the Great was a very ambitious man and everything what he has done for his country just proves it.

From the book by Foyanov; History of from ancient times to the beginning of XX century (История от древнейших времен до начала XX века):
«…не впадая в преувеличения, надо видеть, что Петр был суровым, жестоким человеком. Характеристику Петра можно закончить его портретом, который донес до нас датский посланник: "Царь очень

Peter ’s characteristic can be finished with his portrait done by the Danish envoy: "The king is very tall and has his own short brown curly hair and quite big mustache, his outlook and behavior are very simple, but he is pretty attentive and clever.».») This shows that Peter was very different, being so cruel man he cared so much about the country, and so did a lot for it.

Politics of Peter The Great was as the politics of Prince Golitsyn, focused on Europe, but not Catholic Europe, but the Protestant part of it, like England, Holland and Brandenburg. Nowadays we can find monuments of Peter I in many European countries such as England, France and Holland which only proves his greatness. We still can find many justifications of the presence of that amazing person almost all over the

He lived and worked for the benefit of his nation and cared about it. This was evident in many of his acts. «Peter and his immediate succeeders were more concerned with reshaping the present and the future than with reflecting on the shape of the past.» - National identity in Russian culture; Simon Franklin and Emma Widdis, p. 16. During the reign of Peter The Great, In Moscow, there were opened eight pharmacies and closed «zeleynye» shops, which were selling herbs, from which people were dyeing a quick death, and prohibited the sale of wine in those pharmacies. Prohibited the carrying of knives, because during drunk fights people could cut each other, sometimes to death. For the request of the people, to fight with fires, yew roofs were changed to tile ones, and the houses started to be built of stone instead of wood, according to the European tradition. The architecture changed and the country flourished under the rule of Peter the Great. Peter did many reforms to improve the quality of life in his empire. For example he introduced the collegiate regional management for solving problems not only by governors but by two or three more people from the nobility, he created Senate, established schools, translated foreign books, and the translation was semantic, not literal. He introduced compulsory literacy for at least the nobility class. In that time the level of education increased. The country was developing a cult of