Founder of the Empire

This empire with zones of influence. Can estimate the scale.



His idol Peter I called and the young French general Napoleon Bonaparte, and the young Prussian envoy in Russia Otto von Bismarck. And what an irony - that the army, which began with the mock Semyonov and Perobrazhensky shelves insurmountable obstacle has always stood in the way of these by far the greatest politicians who led the European countries of the first magnitude.
This army has broken through the country with an iron fist the way to the Baltic Sea, in consequence, this army, led by the greatest Russian general, behaved in Europe as at home.



Although Peter Alekseevich certainly sang in his ears about the fact that the archers with their prehistoric weapons "hoo what terrible" and "everyone else poaaaazhuuut", he did not react like singing, and began to prepare their own shelves Based Learning the best examples of European armies , armed them with modern weapons. And not lost - archers, realizing that they have a furry creature north, staged a riot was stormy, but the "comic" shelves very quickly demonstrated the superiority of advanced methods of warfare and weapons.



Peter as nobody knew the country to move from place only by means of a whip and a fertile cryosauna in Siberia. That there is no "special way" in Russia - it should be part of the world, a part of Europe, a significant part of, a country to be reckoned with, and not a place where merchants from Europe come to change the natives fur and golden sand on iron knives and glass beads . And this requires a strong army, strong economy and advanced science. Russ had to get out of the domination of the dense boyars and not less dense priests who did not want any changes, and only well-fed and relaxed lifestyle, who saw in it the foundation of its existence.



The future emperor actively invites European experts sends sons of nobles to study in Western Europe, and soon he is sent back to the "Great Embassy". He devotes a lot of time studying shipbuilding, military, and other sciences. Peter worked as a carpenter in the shipyards of the East India Company, with the participation of the king was built ship "Peter and Paul." In England, visited the foundry, arsenal, Parliament, University of Oxford, Greenwich Observatory and the Mint, the caretaker who at the time was Sir Isaac Newton.



And on his return to Russia, Peter did what allowed the Empire to become one of the greatest in history - to put all the cancer. "I wish to transform the secular goats, ie citizens and clergy, that is, the monks and priests. First, that they without a beard like in the good Europeans, and others, that they should, although with a beard in the churches would teach parishioners Christian virtues as seen and heard I who teach pastors in Germany "- he said. And that is typical of his word and deed did not disperse.



Peter has been reformed church government, aimed at eliminating the autonomous from the state and the subordination of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Russian Church hierarchy ... When the Emperor Hadrian died patriarch, Peter appointed in place of the Patriarch locum tenens, eliminating the patriarchal order as such. Subsequently, to control the church was created by the Holy Synod, which was in turn accountable to the chief prosecutor .... Yes, actually led the church stood the chief procurator! And that is typical - nothing wrong with the church did not happen. The painting is one of the Procurator of the Synod - Count Dmitry Andreyevich Tolstoy.



In the reign of Peter the Great in Moscow mathematical school was opened and Navigational Sciences (in the picture). Were opened artillery, engineering and medical schools in Moscow School of Engineering and Maritime Academy in St. Petersburg, mountain school at Olonetsky and Ural factories. Was opened Russia's first gymnasium. Created tsifirnye schools in provincial towns, called "children of all ranks to teach literacy, and the geometry of figures." For soldiers' children were discovered garrison schools for training priests since 1721 to create a network of theological schools. Peter's decree was introduced compulsory education nobility and clergy.



Peter created new printing plant, which for 1700-1725 published 1312 titles (two times more than in the entire previous history of Russian typography) .Proizoshli changes in the Russian language, which included 4.5 thousand new words borrowed from European languages.
Peter adopted the Charter organized Academy of Sciences (opened in 1725 after his death).
Peter invited foreign artists in Russia and simultaneously sends talented young people to study "art" abroad. In the second quarter of XVIII century. "Peter retired" began to return to Russia, bringing with it a new artistic experience and acquired skill.



"This shows their commitment sovereign concerns about preparations for military training and discipline of his troops, on the training and education of their people, to attract foreign officers and all kinds of talented people. This mode of action and the increase of power, which is the largest in Europe, makes it formidable to his neighbors and excite envy very thorough. »
That said, the king of France, Louis XIV de Bourbon.

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