The first Russian emperor. Prominent reformer and rider. Founder of St. Petersburg. The hero of countless works of art.
On the first day of 1700, Russia moved to a new chronology. By decree of the head of state should "... as a sign of good beginnings and the new century a century of gladness each other Happy New Year, ..u gates and houses inflict some decorating of the tree and branches of pine, spruce and juniper, ..chinit shooting pushechek and small guns, lobbing rockets as anyone happen and starting fires. "So, after December 31, 8208, the creation of the world come from 1 January 1700 from the Nativity. Russia began to live according to the new calendar. Peter was the first and only Russian rulers, who openly and officially, according to the documents, called on citizens to light and shoot hurl.
Peter, on the right to receive from the descendants of the grand epithet Great, the most pressing responded to everything new that is happening in the world. Existing in his time such a phenomenon as "innovation" and "nanotechnology", the emperor would have certainly put the appropriate disposition of the widespread planting in the country referred to oddities. It seems that there was no such part of Russia, which Peter did not wish to change beyond recognition. By the end of his reign are very few places that have escaped Peter's reforms.
Without Peter the Great would not have had Peter, that his "brilliant errors" based on the bones and the swamp in 1703, nor the glorious Russian navy, armed to the teeth nor the army, nor the first Russian museum, nor the first Russian newspaper, not a lot of things else. The first Russian emperor safely be counted among the units of the elect, who managed to turn the tide of history. Perhaps it failed, not least because the course of Russian history by the end of the XVII century. and the course of a difficult to call. Conversion, initiator and main driving force which was Peter called and will cause all kinds of assessment. Even to his contemporaries, he was both an earthly god, and the Antichrist, "lyudomorom."