HIST 10800 Lecture 5: The Russian calendar
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Pr forced his people to give up the old calendar (new year on 9/1) to use the new calendar (new year on 1/1) Pr decreed that the russian year 7208 was made in to european year ad 1700: agriculture. B. 2. potatoes became a staple because they grew well in cold climate. Mercantilist ideas were used in russia to strengthen economy. Pr favored factories, so he subsidized their growth. Iron industry was aided, and russia started to sell iron to other countries: newspapers. Peter i was an absolute ruler: after patriarch hadrian, the head of the russian orthodox church, died in 1700, peter neglected to appoint another patriarch and in 1721, abolished the patriarch position. A. 1. he created a group of high priests called the holy synod, and the head was. A. 2. the russian church was now the czar"s church: he reduced the power of the boyars. B. 1. rarely gave high posts in gov"t to powerful boyars.
