Peter the Great

Petro Alekseyevich Romanov (1672-1725), who worked tirelessly throughout his tsardom to transform Russia, a vast, backward landlocked state, into a developed country, began his modernization program by encouraging his subjects to dress and act like Westerners. His decree for his people to cut off their traditional Russian-Orthodox beards and his personal implementation of this decree on the streets with a razor in his hand were among the first indicators of the policy that this giant tsar, with a height of more than two meters, would follow.

However, Peter not only dealt with people's appearance, but also created new institutions and initiated new practices that would enable his country to undergo a permanent transformation. For example, the navy he created from scratch turned his country, which did not even have a commercial port other than Arkhangelsk on the Arctic Ocean, into one of the important naval powers of Europe. Again, Strelets, similar to the Janissaries of the Ottoman Empire, II. Like Mahmud, but more than a hundred years before, he destroyed the army and established an army in line with the requirements of the age. Here they devastated Sweden, one of the most powerful states of the period, in Poltava and captured its king, King Louis XII. It was this army that caused Karl to seek refuge in the Ottoman Empire for long enough to earn the name “Charl the Fixture”. The same army, which was saved from being destroyed by the Ottomans at the Prut, thanks to Baltacı Mehmet Pasha, would soon reach the strength to challenge the Ottomans.

From many institutions such as the Academy of Sciences, the merit system that neutralized the aristocracy in the state, the position of the Holy Synod instead of the patriarchate in the church, to the policy of going to warm seas, he made many innovations that would remain valid until the collapse of the empire in 1917. St. Petersburg, which he built from scratch on swampy land on the shores of the Baltic Sea. The city of St. Petersburg still amazes us today as perhaps his most enduring work.

Although Peter, who turned Russia, which was an insignificant state when he came to power, into a European power that would be one of the main perpetrators of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the following centuries, is referred to as "Crazy Peter" by some Ottoman historians, history's final judgment on him is different and adorns the title of the book in your hands.

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 16 x 23.5

First Printing Year: 2019

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Original Language: English