Years of Peter 1 - the Great Russian Tsar

The years of the reign of Peter the Great - the great Russian tsar - are years of uneasy, which occupy a worthy place in history.

The great Russian Tsar Peter Alexeyevich was born on May 30th in 1672. Alexei Mikhailovich had 14 children, however, for his mother, Natalia Kirillovna Naryshkina, he became the first child. He was a very active and inquisitive boy, and so his father had high hopes for him, unlike his half-brothers Fedor and Ivan, who were weak in health.

Four years after the birth of Peter, his father, Tsar Alexei, dies. On the throne was his stepbrother Fyodor, who occupied himself in the formation of the future Russian tsar. Even in his early childhood, the Great Tsar was interested in history, military art, and geography, which during the reign of Peter the Great greatly helped. The great king made up his own alphabet, which was easy to remember and easy for the language. In addition, Peter dreamed 1 years of government to devote a book on the history of his homeland.

After the death of Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich (1682), two half-brother Peter the Great and Ivan became candidates for the throne. Mothers of brothers were different representatives of noble births. The ascent to the throne of the ten-year-old Peter was supported by the clergy. Mother Natalia Kirillovna becomes ruler. The reign of Peter the Great did not suit the relatives of Ivan and Queen Sophia, who belonged to the Miloslavskys.

Therefore, in the so-called first years of the reign of Peter the First, the Miloslavskys staged a rebellion in Moscow . They started a rumor that Ivan's weak-minded prince was killed. The archers discontented with this news moved to the Kremlin and, despite the fact that Natalia Kirillovna came out with both Peter 1 and Ivan, they robbed and killed throughout Moscow for several days. Sagittarians put forward the demand that Ivan should rise to the throne, and Sophia became regent.

Streletsky rebellion plunged the young Peter in horror, and he hated them harshly. In those years when Russia was ruled by Sofia Alekseevna, the young king lived with his mother in such villages as Semenovskoye, Preobrazhensky and Kolomna. To Moscow they traveled quite rarely only to official receptions.

Peter the First because of his lively mind and curiosity got addicted to military affairs and began to arrange "military fun" - games in the palace villages. It is worth noting that in the early years of Peter the Great's reign "fun" turns into real military exercises. Thus, the regiments of Preobrazhensky and Semenovsky became much more impressive than the army of the archer.

With the age of majority and the marriage of Peter the Great, he receives the absolute right to rise to the throne. However, in the summer of 1689, Queen Sofia provoked an archery speech, which was directed against Peter. Then the king takes refuge in the Sergeyev Monastery, which is in Troitsk. The Preobrazhensky and Strelets regiments arrived in the same place, which suppressed the mutiny. Sophia was imprisoned in the Novodevichy Convent, in which she died.

With the death of the feeble-minded Ivan in 1696, Peter the Great became the only tsar of Russia. However, at that time he was too enthusiastic about "military fun", and the mother's relatives, Naryshkin, were engaged in state policy. Peter's idea to reach the sea was grandiose and crowned with success. It was during the reign of Peter 1 that Russia became a Great Empire, and the tsar became an emperor. The internal and external policies of Emperor Peter were very active. In history Peter 1 is known as the Russian tsar-reformer, who introduced a lot of innovations. Despite the fact that his reforms killed Russia's identity, they became timely.

Peter the Great died in 1725 and his wife, the queen Catherine the Great, ascended the throne.