Even at an early age, Peter took a fascination to his father’s military even though it was a meager force. Peter’s father’s death at an early age led Peter and his mother down a road of poverty, in a sense, as they were forced to leave the palace and head to the town of his mother’s heritage--Preobrazhensky. Peter took with him a love of war games and staging drills that would eventually lead to his knowledge of real war situations in his later years. “The games that had started in nursery were continued in the grounds and woods at Preobrazhensky…” (Klyuchevsky. P. 15). Peter took to a world unlike the world in which he was being raised in. With a tutor and no formal education Peter was able to learn
Even at an early age, Peter took a fascination to his father’s military even though it was a meager force. Peter’s father’s death at an early age led Peter and his mother down a road of poverty, in a sense, as they were forced to leave the palace and head to the town of his mother’s heritage--Preobrazhensky. Peter took with him a love of war games and staging drills that would eventually lead to his knowledge of real war situations in his later years. “The games that had started in nursery were continued in the grounds and woods at Preobrazhensky…” (Klyuchevsky. P. 15). Peter took to a world unlike the world in which he was being raised in. With a tutor and no formal education Peter was able to learn