How Did Peter The Great Modernize Russia

Peter Romanov, or Peter the Great ruled the Tsardom of Russia, 1682-1721, and later the Russian Empire 1721-1725. He was both revered and hated by the people of Russia during his reign. He is widely known for bringing Russia into the modern age. Though he had trouble claiming the throne for himself in his early life and after the throne was his, Peter the Great found ways to modernized Russia, one way was by looking towards Europe to give him the knowledge that was needed to bring Russia into the modern era. After being exiled from the Kremlin by his half-sister Sophia, Peter sought out European technocrats and military experts that resided in the German Quarter in Moscow. Among his instructors were a Dutch merchant who taught him the use of an astrolabe and, at Peters request, mathematics and a variety of technical military subjects, an English
Peace with Sweden did not come until 1721, when the Treaty of Nystadt was signed, which confirmed Russia’s annexation of former Swedish territory along the Baltic coast. This was marked as Peters single greatest triumph and after the treaty was signed, he took the titles Peter the Great and Emperor, in effect marking Russia’s imperial age. The low point in Peter’s military career came in 1711 along the Pruth River in a war against Turkey. Peter led an army to the Black Sea through the Balkans. He expected support from the Balkan Christians against the Turks because of their suffering under Muslim Turkish rule, but no support was given. Peter soon found himself and his army surrounded by the Turks. This defeat costed Russia Azov and the rest of the spoils from the early victories against the Turks. In the agreement with the Turks, Peter got away cheaply. A war against Persia, 1722-1723, brought Russia the territory along the western shore of the Caspian Sea, but a decade after Peter’s death was the land then returned