How Did Peter Modernize Russia
Peter had returned from his journey through Europe, but Something troubled the tsar. The country he had left now seemed to the tsar not fitting to his persona and to the day and age. He felt that the people, ideas, religion, education, and government where all centered around ancients teaching. No place or person wanted to modernize or become better , to become like the people he had meet in his travels. Peters Russia sadly was to old and stuck in her ways, she was not even close enough to the standards of her brothers in Europe. This though only made the tsar more determined to bring Russia and her people out of the Middle Ages weather willingly or by force. His beloved Russia was going to join her brothers and become better then them if it was the last thing the tars would do..
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He called them uncivilized dogs that looked like the Turks they hated, he had his English barbers shave all his men's breads off in front of all. That was the very first attempt to modernize his people and it wouldn't be the last dramatic reform. The government and church were next another major problem, many were corrupted politicians that leached of Russia. Peter with brute force killed and killed all that were corrupt and put his own men in to run. The church was wealthy, owned lots of land, and refused to modernize, Peter of course was not to stand for this disgust. In the the end he separated the church from the government, made it much weaker and forever changed its roll in its people and government. Finally education was one of peters biggest achievement he created schools of maths, navigation, medicine, engineering, and science and he kept creating till the day he died. Russia was beginning to modernize, more foreigners lived in Russian cities and mixed with Russia people, their western ideas and cultures were mixing with the Russian culture and creating a new modern life. Peter had started the chain of the modernization in Russia and the cruelty
He called them uncivilized dogs that looked like the Turks they hated, he had his English barbers shave all his men's breads off in front of all. That was the very first attempt to modernize his people and it wouldn't be the last dramatic reform. The government and church were next another major problem, many were corrupted politicians that leached of Russia. Peter with brute force killed and killed all that were corrupt and put his own men in to run. The church was wealthy, owned lots of land, and refused to modernize, Peter of course was not to stand for this disgust. In the the end he separated the church from the government, made it much weaker and forever changed its roll in its people and government. Finally education was one of peters biggest achievement he created schools of maths, navigation, medicine, engineering, and science and he kept creating till the day he died. Russia was beginning to modernize, more foreigners lived in Russian cities and mixed with Russia people, their western ideas and cultures were mixing with the Russian culture and creating a new modern life. Peter had started the chain of the modernization in Russia and the cruelty