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Peter the Great. The government reforms of Peter I aimed to modernize the Tsardom of Russia (later the Russian Empire) based on Western European models. Peter ascended to the throne at the age of 10 in 1682; he ruled jointly with his half-brother Ivan V. After Ivan's death in 1696, Peter started his series of sweeping reforms.
Peter the Great needed more money in order to realise his personal projects. The first major task for the state was to find new sources of income. [ 3 ] Peter knew that in order to improve the financial condition of the country, there was a necessity to increase the national economy.
Peter I (Russian: Пётр I Алексеевич, romanized: Pyotr I Alekseyevich, IPA: [ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪkˈsʲejɪvʲɪtɕ]; 9 June [O.S. 30 May] 1672 – 8 February [O.S. 28 January] 1725), known as Peter the Great, [note 1] was Tsar of all Russia from 1682 and the first Emperor of all Russia from 1721 until his death in 1725.
The Church Reform of Peter the Great was a set of changes Tsar Peter I (ruled 1682–1725) introduced to the Russian Orthodox Church, especially to church government. Issued in the context of Peter's overall westernizing reform programme, it replaced the Patriarch of Moscow with the Holy Synod and made the church effectively a department of state.
From 1711 to 1917, the Governing Senate [a] was the highest legislative, judicial, and executive body subordinate to the Russian emperors.The senate was instituted by Peter the Great to replace the Boyar Duma and lasted until the very end of the Russian Empire.
A Russian beard token from 1705, carried to indicate that the owner had paid the beard tax imposed by Peter the Great. A beard tax is a governmental policy that requires men to pay for the privilege of wearing a beard. The most well documented beard tax was in place in Russia during the 18th century.
The confirmation of local law and administration resulted in many Swedish laws and decrees remaining in effect under Russian rule. [17] For example, an incomplete list of 122 still effective Swedish decrees was published in Reval in 1777, [ 18 ] and the Swedish ecclesiastical order was only replaced in 1832.
1794 portrait of Catherine the Great by Dmitry Levitzky. Born in 1754, [1] Paul was the son of Emperor Peter III and Catherine the Great. [2] Six months after Peter's accession, Catherine participated in a successful coup d'état against her husband; Peter was deposed and killed in prison. [3] During Catherine's reign, Russia was revitalized.