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Part I: Petrine Era (1)

Part I: Petrine Era (1). “Catch and Overtake”. Introduction Contexts Petrine State-Building. L02 Overview. I. Introduction. Historiography Sources Themes Images. Peter’s Birth (1672). Peter’s First Boat Pereslavl-Zalesskii Museum. Peter the Great 1695 Engraving.

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Part I: Petrine Era (1)

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  1. Part I: Petrine Era (1) “Catch and Overtake”

  2. Introduction Contexts Petrine State-Building L02Overview

  3. I. Introduction • Historiography • Sources • Themes • Images

  4. Peter’s Birth (1672)

  5. Peter’s First BoatPereslavl-Zalesskii Museum

  6. Peter the Great1695 Engraving

  7. Peter: Certified as Shipbuilding Master

  8. Peter: 1695 Engraving

  9. Youthful Peter

  10. F. Lefort

  11. Alexander Menshikov

  12. Peter’s Signature

  13. Peter to Mother, 1695

  14. Peter’s “Great Embassy” to Europe (1697-98)

  15. II. Foreign Policy • Ties with the West • War • Turkey 1695 • Great Northern War 1700-1721 • Turkish War 1710

  16. Peter’s Shipbuilding Studies

  17. Peter in London 1698

  18. First Petrine Ship: “Predestination” (1698-1700)

  19. Peter: Sketch of Shipyard Crane

  20. Peter: 1703 Letter

  21. On Peter’s Visit to France1717 • “What he ate and drank at his two regular meals is inconceivable . . . a bottle or two of beer, as many more of wine, and, occasionaly, liquors afterward; at the end of the meal strong drinks, such as brandy, as much sometimes as a quart.”

  22. Peter Meets Young Louis XV

  23. Peter at Poltava (1709)

  24. “Domik Petra Velikogo”

  25. Celebratory Fireworks (1704)

  26. Peter and “Generalisimus Shein” (1704)

  27. Peter at Poltava (1709)

  28. Peter: “Father of His Country”

  29. Peter: 1722 Portrait

  30. Peter: 1724 Portrait

  31. Peter Saving Sailors (1724)

  32. Peter in Coffin (1725)

  33. Peter’s Tomb

  34. “Bronze Horseman” Spb, 1767-82

  35. Moscow Monument to Peter1999

  36. Atomic Missile Cruiser “Peter the Great”

  37. II. Contexts • European State-Building • Dynamics • Development theory: mercantilism cameralism (Kameralwissenschaft) • Prescriptive absolutism 2. Baseline: Russia in 1689 • Monarchy • State • Army • Society

  38. III. Petrine State-Building • Dynamics: military/diplomatic, cultural • Petrine Theory • Etatisme • “Self-regulated state” • Polizeistaat • Personal Absolutism • Petrine Style

  39. Russia under Peter the Great

  40. Europe: Recognizes Young Peter

  41. Peter: Announcing Treaty of Nystad (1721)

  42. Petrine Silver Ruble

  43. Peter’s Imperial Seal

  44. 1724: Role of Policy (Polizei) • Policy (Police) has its special calling: which is to intervene to protect justice and rights, to generate good order and morals, to guarantee safety from thieves, robbers, rapists, and extortionists, to extirpate disordered and loose living. It binds everyone to labor and an honest profession . . . . It defends widows, orphans and foreigners in accordance with God’s law, educates the young in chaste purity and honest learning; in short, for all of these, the police is the soul of citizenship and of all good order.”

  45. Creative Law-Making

  46. Monarch’s Power1716 Military Code His Majesty is an autocratic monarch, who is not obliged to answer for his actions to anyone on earth, but who possesses power and authority, the state, and land. As a Christian sovereign, he rules in accordance with his will and wish.

  47. IV. Conclusions • Pan-European process: prescriptive absolutism • Continuity: state development • Discontinuity: theory, pace • Legitimacy: Piety, Patrimony + Persona, Power, Prosperity • Sovereign and state (gosudar’ and gosudarstvo) • Depersonalize: Peter and Petrovian Elite

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