Peter the Great and Russia

1.) Ivan the Terrible The time of troubles

2.) Michael Romanov

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Peter’s 1st wife, Eudoxia

3.) Early Russia Boyars- the Russian nobility Steltsy- Russian military force

4.) Westernization of Russia Built navy Adopted Western fashions Rights of women

No beards in Russia

5.) Construction of the navy

6.) The Great Northern War Russia vs. Sweden

7.) Peace of Nystad

8.) Construction of St. Petersburg

9.) Peter the Great and Aleksei

Peter the Great and Aleksei

10.) The Russian Orthodox Church

11.) Holy Synod Peter the Great’s friends and advisors in government.

12.) The death of Peter the Great

Peter the Great

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