Lindsey hughes peter the great

  • Peter the Great (–), tsar of Russia for forty-three years, was a dramatic, appealing, and unconventional character.
  • Peter the Great was born in Moscow at around one in the morning of Thursday, 30 May , on the feast of St Isaac of Dalmatia.
  • Gerhard Rempel of Western New England College offers the full text of a lecture concerning the reforms of Tsar Peter I (), known as Peter the Great.

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    Russia in the age of Peter the Great

    xxix, pages : 25 cm

    All of the important topics about the single individual who did more to affect the course of imperial Russian history than any other are covered here in remarkable detail: Peter the Great's establishment of Russia as a military power with his victory in the Great Northern War; his creation of the Table of Ranks, the basis of Russia's famous bureaucracy; his Westernization campaign. Hughes, a professor of Russian history at the University of London, leaves no stone unturned as she describes how Peter attempted to 'modernize' Russia. But while she notes in her introduction that she had access to previously unopened Russian archives, it's unclear what the details Hughes has gleaned from these archives have added to our overall knowledge about Peter. For the general reader, the best parts of the book come buried in the last section, where Hughes departs from her emphasis on the Petrine age and focuses on the more personal aspects of this 6' 7' man. Peter's fascinating private life most of his 14 children died at a very young age, and he most likely helped his heir die by ordering his torture shows that political scandal and intrigue is nothing new. Scholars and students of Russian history will welcome this encyclopedic w

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    Russia in the Age of Peter the Great

    Peter the Great, often known as the Tsar Reformer, initiated a program of modernization and Westernization that affected the lives of all his subjects. He founded a new capital, St. Petersburg, which became a symbol of cultural change, and a navy, which signaled Russia's emergence as a maritime power. He also reinforced the old institutions of serfdom and autocracy. This magisterial book--a history of Peter and the Russia he governed--examines the impact of a man who was both acclaimed as the architect of the New Russia and condemned as a crude despot who sacrificed cherished traditions for the sake of international success.

    Drawing on previously unavailable sources, Lindsey Hughes provides an engrossing account of one of the most significant periods in Russian history. She proceeds thematically, discussing Russia's foreign policy, the army and navy, economy, governing institutions, society, arts, education, and religion. She explores the experience of women and investigates the life of the court (including Peter's "All-Drunken Assembly"), feasts, entertainments, and popular culture. Although the book is not a biography, Peter is a vivid presence throughout--a six-foot-seven-inch giant who enjoyed the company of dwarfs and ordinary p

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