1. A Great Leader or a Tyrant?
Czar Peter the Great
A Great Leader or a Tyrant?

2. Europe’s Oldest Absolute Monarch
Czar is the Russian Word for Caesar
The First Czar is Ivan the Terrible in 1574
The Czars will last until World War I and the Russian Revolution

3. Peter the Great He is a Boy king taking the throne at age 10
He will experience an uprising at a young age by his body guards
Peter will never trust Traditional Russian Culture

4. Peter Modernizes Russia
Peter will make it his mission to bring Russia into the Western World
He hires many westerns to be his ministers and advisors
Also builds Russia’s first Western City St. Petersburg

5. Building St. Petersburg
Good
Bad
A Very beautiful and advanced city
A center of Business and trade
A modern industrial center
Greatly improved education and business in Russia
Built to ignore traditional Russian Culture
30,000 Conscripted Peasants Died building the City
Moved the Capital Away from most of Russian
Fought an 11 year war just to get the land to build the city