Many people have, most notably Peter the Great, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Boris Yeltsin.
He wanted to westernize it
peter the great
Peter the Great
1692
Peter the Great
Yes, one of his key aims was to modernize Russia. In practice this inolved westernization.
he boned your mom
He wanted Russia to be the most wonderful and modern country in the world, but most of all he wanted to pull it out of the archaic poverty and ignorance that engulfed most of the Russias. He succeded by building Shipbuilding yards and proper grain growing that he himself learned by going to other countries.
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westernize Russia
social reforms
A major goal of Peter the Great was to westernize Russia.