Russia in the Age of Peter the Great Rainer Maria Rilke and the perennial favorite The

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Russia in the Age of Peter the Great Rainer Maria Rilke and the perennial favorite ThePeter the Great, often known as the Tsar Reformer, initiated a bold programme of modernisation and Westernisation that affected the lives of all Russia's subjects. He founded a new capital, St Petersburg, which became a symbol of cultural change, and a navy, which signalled Russia's emergence as a maritime power. At the same time he reinforced the old institutions of serfdom and autocracy. This magisterial book a history of Peter and the Russia he