Imperials
- Peter the Great:
- Wants a warm water port to compete with the other European Powers
- Started to build a port in Crimea to get access to a warm water port
- Azov: A port on the black sea first; naval battle for Peter the Great
- Went on a Journey through Europe to learn about the Western world, he learned many things by acting like a student
- Learned many things in Germany like Dentistry, and Anatomy
- Learned how to build ships, personally knows how to build a 28 gun frigate from scratch
- Strelksky - Palace Guards tried to lead a revolt
- Peter made people change how they looked, so they showed how European noble
- Had a severe wrath for the Strelsky Focused all resources towards the army and navy
- Gave himself the title of Emperor
- Found his wife Martha
- Alexis his son was a disappointmentL
- Ran away, but was captured, and tortured, then killed by his father
- Got rid of the xenophobia and isolationism of Muscovy
- Peter the Third:
- Son of Catherine ( not the Great )
- Born in the
- Extremely underdeveloped, and immature for his age
- Does not look like a good leader
- Aunt has to find him a partner
- Sophia a princess from a minor royal family in Austria is brought
- He gets married, but refuses to have sex with her
Catherine the Second ( Catherine the Great | Sophia of Austria ):
- From a minor Austrian royal family
- Gets pregnant from an Orlov brother
- Immerses her self in Russian culture
- Gets into philosophy and contacts Voltaire and other philosophers
- Learns all the folklore of the people
- Wants to Westernize and Militarize Russia
- Initially heads for the warm water port, so she heads South towards Crimea, and the Black Sea
- Wants to take on the Turks
- Greek Project:
- Wanted to go into the Turkish lands and kill them all
- Then give the land to the Greeks
- Turn Istanbul into Constantinople again
- She knows that the Greeks will let her into the Mediterranean to the warm water port
- Takes over Ukraine
- Poland :
- Never Unified
- Taken over slightly by the Prussians, and Austrian
- Europe wants to give the majority to Catherine so she does not go for Crimea
- Does more to expand the boundaries of Russia
- Art and Culture
- Called herself a "philosopher on the throne"
- Starts a school in every province
- Starts boarding schools for girls
- Wants to learn about science
- Vaccinates her court for Smallpox
- Creates the Hermitage
- Designed it herself for artwork
- Fills it with the best artwork in the world
- Greatest gallery of European art, despite being on the edge of Europe
- New Law Code:
- No Torture
- Jury based trials
- Wants everyone to be equal, but cannot free her serfs, since the boyars will kill her if she does
- Pugachev's Rebellion:
- Starts a riot
- Confirms her realization she cannot free the serfs
- Potemkin villages:
- As the Czarina wanted to see the Crimean peasants she takes a trip
- Potemkin set up facades of houses filled with fat peasants, and fat animals
- She died peacefully surrounded by family, and friends
- A lie created by Contemporaries said she was killed by a horse falling on top of her when she was trying to copulate with it