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Peter the Great: The Life of the Reformer Tsar
Aged 17, Emperor Peter finally got the chance to rule, but his personal rule only really began in , when his mother Natalya died.
A great admirer of the West, Peter’s aim during his rule was to modernize his country, and to this end, he used his autocratic power to implement sweeping reforms that reorganized the administration of his country.
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These reforms included the military, the calendar Russia used by adopting the Julian calendar and even some choices of fashion like the beard tax he decreed in order to force the boyars to adopt the clean-shaven look nobles in other European countries preferred.
From a young age, the Tsar had also been fascinated by the sea and the navy, and he was determined to turn Russia into a naval power.
There was only one problem here, the fact apart from the frozen port of Archangel. Russia had no usable coastline to speak of, and the acquiring of access to the seas became the main driving force of the T