Peter The Great

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.

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Peter The Great

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