Term Papers on Peter The Great

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Peter the Great

Peter the Great or Peter I, czar of Russia, reigned from (1672-1725). In many ways he bettered the country
of Russia, but in other ways he hurt Russia. The ways in which bettered the country outweighs the bad
effects put upon Russians during his reign. Most of the ways that he improved the country stemmed from
him forcing Western European culture on his people. One of the ways in which he bettered Russia was that
he expanded their land. Land expansion meant that Russia became bigger that the rest of Europe and Russia
now had sea and fresh water ports important for trade. He also improved education, the military, and
transportation. Some of the negative aspects of Peter’s rule was that the Russians taxes increased and their
standard of life had decrease. At all cost and with his perseverance Peter had made Russia a European
power.
Peter’s greatest accomplishment was that he educated many of the would be illiterate Russians. Russians
were at the highest point of education that they had ever been. He standardized a simpler Russian alphabet
and introduced Arabic numerals. He started Russian academies for higher education. For the Boyards he
made the college aged people to go out of the country for five years to study at a school in a Western
European school. For the first time in Russian history there were the publishing of newspapers. He also
changed the calendar to agree with the current calendar, the Gregorian.
Peter next best accomplishment was that he expanded the state and therefor encouraged trade. Until the
middle part of his reign Russia was land locked which meant that they had to hope that the other countries
would let them through their country and water to go other countries seeking trade. The only way they
could trade was with neighboring countries and that was still not good. Through wars with other countries
such as Sweden they acquired lands that would give them seaports. With this came the establishment of a
large seaport called St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg brought along the establishment in Russ...

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