Part I: Petrine Era (1)

Catch and Overtake

L02OverviewIntroductionContextsPetrine State-Building

I. IntroductionHistoriographySourcesThemesImages

Peters Birth (1672)

Peters First BoatPereslavl-Zalesskii Museum

Peter the Great1695 Engraving

Peter: Certified as Shipbuilding Master

Peter: 1695 Engraving

Youthful Peter

F. Lefort

Alexander Menshikov

Peters Signature

Peter to Mother, 1695

Peters Great Embassy to Europe (1697-98)

II. Foreign PolicyTies with the WestWarTurkey 1695Great Northern War 1700-1721Turkish War 1710

Peters Shipbuilding Studies

Peter in London 1698

First Petrine Ship: Predestination (1698-1700)

Peter: Sketch of Shipyard Crane

Peter: 1703 Letter

On Peters Visit to France1717What 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.

Peter Meets Young Louis XV

Peter at Poltava (1709)

Domik Petra Velikogo

Celebratory Fireworks (1704)

Peter and Generalisimus Shein (1704)

Peter at Poltava (1709)

Peter: Father of His Country

Peter: 1722 Portrait

Peter: 1724 Portrait

Peter Saving Sailors (1724)

Peter in Coffin (1725)

Peters Tomb

Bronze Horseman Spb, 1767-82

Moscow Monument to Peter1999

Atomic Missile Cruiser Peter the Great

II. ContextsEuropean State-BuildingDynamicsDevelopment theory: mercantilismcameralism (Kameralwissenschaft)Prescriptive absolutism2. Baseline: Russia in 1689MonarchyStateArmySociety

III. Petrine State-BuildingDynamics: military/diplomatic, culturalPetrine TheoryEtatismeSelf-regulated statePolizeistaatPersonal AbsolutismPetrine Style

Russia under Peter the Great

Europe: Recognizes Young Peter

Peter: Announcing Treaty of Nystad (1721)

Petrine Silver Ruble

Peters Imperial Seal

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 Gods 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.

Creative Law-Making

Monarchs Power1716 Military CodeHis 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.

IV. ConclusionsPan-European process: prescriptive absolutismContinuity: state developmentDiscontinuity: theory, paceLegitimacy: Piety, Patrimony + Persona, Power, ProsperitySovereign and state (gosudar and gosudarstvo)Depersonalize: Peter and Petrovian Elite

Tannauer painting 1725