Essay - The Rule of Peter the Great Was Characterized with Western...

The rule of Peter the Great was characterized with Western orientation in all areas of Russian life, establishment of Russia as a military might and development of sciences and education imported again from the West. This paper discusses ***** causes behind the success of transformation of Russia during the reign ***** Peter, the *****.

PETER THE GREAT AND HIS EFFECTS ON RUSSIAN MODERNIZATION AND WESTERNIZATION

INTRODUCTION

The groundwork for the Golden Age that Russia experienced between mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth century was laid down by ***** the Great who founded and established the paradigms required for *****'s supremacy. Peter the Great, the most influential czar and military leader in ***** history, literally transformed his country from an almost medieval backwater region *****to one of the world's great powers at the beginning of the eighteenth *****. Russia had missed out on both ***** Renaiss*****ce and the Reform*****ion, which left it nearly a century behind the rest of Europe in every field imaginable: social, cultural, pol*****ical and educational. However, due to Peter's keen observations and the effective plans of action that thus evolved, Russia emerged, almost overnight, as a *****y empire comp*****rable with the likes of Britain, France and Germany. ***** rapid change in Russia's status was thus, wholly dependant upon the revolutionary ways of Peter the ***** that he employed to ***** over Russia.

This paper provides a lucid *****ccount of Peter's achievements in impact*****g *****n society, government and education *****reby giving Russia the very life ***** it needed to survive and flourish. In addition, ***** ***** also provides adequate rationale or causes ***** ***** success in transf*****ming Russia *****in the context of the prevalent conditions at ***** eve of Peter's ascension, his childhood ***** and environment and finally his foreign ***** domestic achievements.

CAUSES OF SUCCESS

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Peter I, was born to Alexis Romanov and his second wife Natalia Naryshkina in 1672. Peter was the youngest of Czar's children. From ********** first marriage (with Maria Miloslavsky) were born Feodor III, Sophia Alekseyevna, ***** ***** semi-imbecile Ivan. Czar Alexis' early death at the age ***** thirty-one left a bitter struggle for power between the f*****mily of Alexis's first wife's family, ***** Miloslavskaias, and Peter's family. However, a brief period of reign by Peter's half brother Feodor (1676-1682) followed. On Feodor III's death (1682), a ***** broke out aga***** for the succession between ***** Naryshkina and Miloslavsky factions. The *****s at first succeeded in setting Ivan aside in favor of 10-year-old Peter. Shortly afterward, however, the ***** party incited the Streltsi (semi-***** form*****ions in Moscow) to rebellion. As a result of the rebellion Iv*****n, as Ivan V, was made (1682) joint czar with Peter, under the regency ***** Sophia Alekseyevna, his ***** sister Sofia who assumed control of Russia as regent from 1682-1689. During this time Peter and his half brother, Ivan V, waited as co-*****s until they came of *****.

In 1689, ***** Alekseyevna attempted a coup d'etat against ********** this time, however, aided by the loyal part of ***** Streltsi, he