HIST1083 Lecture 28: Lecture 11.01.16 Peter the Great and Russia
Lecture 11.1.16 Substitute (Professor Ivanov)
Peter the Great and the Rise of Modern Russia
• Peter the Great made reforms that pushed Russia forward
• Used to celebrate their NYE on August 31st
o In 1699, they changed it to December 31st
o Drink and party for 7 days
• Laid foundation for modern Russia
• Peter = father of the fatherland
o coming out of the Romanov dynasty
o incredibly strong and healthy, which was weird
o outdrink everyone except the clergy
o house was perceived as politically weak and suffered to the boyars who were the upper
nobility and had real political power
▪ surrounded the czar
• Romaos ere eak eause they ere’t appoited y God ut ere eleted y oyars
o Used to be boyars
o Owed their existence to the boyars
o Tied to them
o Boyars gave them political power
• Peter broke with boyar supremacy
• Became first absolutist ruler
• Reformed the boyars
o Made them into the new elite
o He did’t disregard or pushed the aside ut he eleated his positio aoe the
o Stopped intermarrying with the boyars
▪ Married other European monarchs
• Four dihotoies of Peter’s oderizatio
o Custom vs. policy
▪ Policy is very limiting→more like prohibitions
▪ How Russians were supposed to behave was in customs not policy
▪ Woe ot liig ith e, ot lookig i e’s eyes, ot alloed to leave
their residences without permission of men
▪ Policy was meant to make Russia more modern
• Made them stop using sickle and use better tech
• Forceful push to become more modern
• Absurd punishment for doing basic things in industries
o Things they have done for years instead of the new tech
• Prohibited people from using rowboats, must use sailboats
o Gave lessons to learn how to sail
▪ 16 total decrees
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