What were Three goals of Peter the Great?

Answer 1

I. Peter was determined to centralize royal power. II. He also wanted to push through social and economic reforms. III. Finally, He wanted to adopt mercantilist policies and encouraged exports. These answers are from Ben O'Connor from Middletown, RI I. Peter was determined to centralize royal power. II. He also wanted to push through social and economic reforms. III. Finally, He wanted to adopt mercantilist policies and encouraged exports. These answers are from Ben O'Connor from Middletown, RI

Answer 2

A prominent goal of Peter's was to make Russia a great military power. He came to the throne as a young boy, and traveled to Holland and England in the 1690s to study shipbuilding and to hire foreign workers to help him build a navy. However, while he was abroad, his palace guard rebelled and attempted to restore his half-sister Sophia to the throne. Peter quickly returned home and brutally crushed the rebellion by executing 1200 suspected conspirators. Bodies rotted for months outside the walls of Kremlin as a warning to those who dared to challenge the tsar's authority. Peter the Great was so determined to make Russia into a powerful nation that he was willing to use any means to keep the nation under his control and unified.

But, he is most famous for his want to westernize Russia. He started with social and cultural reforms on the traditional Russian nobility, such as ordering noblemen to cut off their beards and sleeves, publishing a book of manner that banned spitting on the floor and eating with fingers, encouraging polite conversation between genders, and requiring noblewomen to appear with men in Western garb at all public occasions. The children of the nobles were sent to western European courts for their education. Thousands of western European scholars and experts were even brought to Russia for the new schools and academies.

His third goal was related to foreign policy. Peter wanted to get year-round ports for Russia on the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea. In the Black Sea, his enemy was the Ottomans and he had little success with them. (Russia did not secure its position in the Black Sea until the end of the eighteenth-century). The north was a completely different story. He began a war with Sweden in 1700 and won a foothold on the Gulf of Finland and built a new capital city there (St. Petersburg).

NOTE: Many historians argue that it would be inaccurate to see Peter the Great's as driven by desires to make Russia more powerful and more modern. He still had a great thirst for power. The new taxation system he imposed assessed taxes on individuals, rather than households, and was used to raise more money for war (not for modernizing). His Table of Ranks, which insisted that nobles work their way up from the landlord class to the administrative class and then to the military class, reversed Russian noble society but was most importantly used as a lure for his nobility to come into administrative and military services to the tsar.

Thus, the three goals listed above are indeed what Peter the Great advocated for Russia, but a scholar must also keep in mind Peter the Great's want of power.