Why is Peter the Great seen as the modernizer of Russia?
What will be an ideal response?
Peter the Great felt that the future of Russia lay in a greater alliance with western Europe and its more progressive ways. He met with considerable resistance from the Russian nobility and the Orthodox Church, which saw the Western world as suspicious and heretical. Peter thought the way to modernize Russia had to come in cultural, religious, and economic reformations and he looked to the state of Prussia, particularly, as an example. Peter also sought to modernize his military, built a navy from nothing, and involved himself in a number of wars with the northern states to obtain a warm-water port on the Baltic. After this, he built the city of Saint Petersburg to be his "window on the West," and moved the capital there from Moscow.
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