Essay on peter the great accomplishments

Peter the Great was the fourth Tsar of the Romanov dynasty. He reigned from to , a man large in both personality and physical size. He stood 6 feet and 8 inches tall, while the average height at the time was around 5 foot 6 inches. Born as Pyotr Alekseyevich Peter is the English version of Pyotr , Peter gave himself the epithet "the great" towards the end of his reign.

Given his accomplishments, historians have struggled to argue against the monarch's self-proclaimed greatness.

Peter the great education

Petersburg is made the capital of Russia, the "window to Europe". What follows is a condensed version of Russian politics that led to Peter the Great's ascension to Tsardom. Try not to get tripped up in trying to memorize or pronounce the many different names. Instead, focus on how the following events represented 17th-century Russia and informed Peter as a child.

A ten-year-old Peter, another son of Tsar Alexis, was chosen to be the new Tsar, though he was not first in line to inherit Russia. Ivan V, Peter's mentally deficient half-brother, technically had a rightful claim as Tsar. This instigated a conflict between Peter's family, the Naryshkina's, and Ivan's family, the Miloslavsky's. Ivan's sister Sophia was the face of Miloslavsky's resistance to Peter the Great.

Sofia organized the Streltsy guard, the elite guard of Moscow, in resisting Peter's family. Multiple of Peter's family members were killed, and the young boy was forced to flee Moscow, abdicating the throne to Ivan V.