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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 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.
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.
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.
The Table of Ranks (Russian: Табель о рангах, romanized: Tabel' o rangakh) was a formal list of positions and ranks in the military, government, and court of Imperial Russia. Peter the Great introduced the system in 1722 while engaged in a struggle with the existing hereditary nobility, or boyars.
A series of reforms by Peter the Great inspired the creation of the Most Holy Synod. The new Imperial Age saw radical change and developments in economic, social and cultural aspects of Russian life.
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Building of the Twelve Collegia, 1753 engraving. The Collegium (Russian: Коллегии, lit. 'joined by law') was a type of government department in Imperial Russia.It was established in 1717 by Peter the Great to replace the system of Prikaz. [1]