Why Is Peter The Great A Giant

Ever wonder why the russians loved Peter or why they called him a giant? Peter the great was an influential leader that lead Russia to progression. Peter the great started to recognize that Russia was behind Western Europe and Peter came to this conclusion when he made a quick trip to learn more about England and Holland. He had a decision in his mind to bring Russia to great power and improve on the areas that needed improvement. His main focus was to create a stronger army and navy so he brought in new technologies and western advisors for this purpose. He wanted to strengthen the army to hold great power and lead Russia to many victories and now their chances of having a strong army and navy are at a high level since they uphold new techniques.

Peter the great libertated the russian women by allowing the women to appear in public without veils and ending in arranged marriages. The women can finally choose who to get married to and not marry someone they did not love in return but the russian women had a better life than the chinese women since the chinese women had their feet binded and still proceed the tradition of arranged marriages but thanks to Peter this changed for the russian women. They referred to Peter as a giant because he was taller than most people which made him seem odd to everyone and also the great power he held made him a giant.

Peter the great supported everyone and cared about everyone’s freedom but he was also brutal at times. He forced boyars to shave off their beards because they were forced to adopt the western style and who ever did not obey Peter the great they were sentenced to death. Peter began to build the building “St. Petersburg” on baltic and this made it a great view for Russia to look at Europe. Saint Petersburg was sort of a western- city type that mainly symbolized powerful and a modern Russia meaning Russia had a rebirth. While in the city of St. Petersburg, Peter demanded people to leave their house in their old city and build their own house in the great city of St. Petersburg because this city was a new and renovated city of Russia. He wanted this city to be picture perfect and everyone to obey his rules

. Another rule Peter the great had was that the boyars were demanded to serve in the russian army or bureaucracy also the tables of ranks disregarded noble title and rewarded those boyars who served czar but those that did not it they would die.

Russia’s serfs were exploited and conscripted into the army and forced to be part of the making of St. Petersburg. Peter the great was mostly hated because the orthodox church opposed reforms while the nobles hated cultural reforms. As well Russia had a limited maritime presence but ranked among the world’s great and largest land based empires and all due to the actions Peter the great sustained for his country. With the developments Peter the great brought to Russia, Russia is now known as a great empire. Russia has been through alot and the journey of visiting England and Holland has helped progress all these new ideas and have an amazing ruler but not all things seem to be as they appear because Peter the great is a very interesting man that holds many victories as well as untold lies. In the next paragraph it is to be told that Peter has very interesting characteristics and some of these lies are shocking but all well said, Peter did help Russia improve on many

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Peter the great was a tall man who stand to be six feet and four inches tall. He was very popular among the people and drank beer with anyone. Although he was strict sometimes he was kind to the people. Peter executed his eldest son because he tried to overthrow him from the throne so hel torched his own son for this reason. As well, when he married his wife Catherine he found out she secretly had an affair with another man so he sent his troops to chop his head off and place it in a jar which Catherine had sitting in her nightstand. Peter also banished his sister Sofia because she requested a reasonable agreement and since Peter did not agree with her, Sofia was put in a cell where the bodies of her conspirators were hung in the cell where she was staying. After all these brutal actions, Peter did grow older and began to feel weak and he died in 1725 but left a plan to conquest Europe so Russia would remain the greatest nation at war.Throughout all these facts about Peter the great, he still remains as a strong leader that lead the nation of Russia through a series of events that helped improve Russia for the best.