Peter the Great — "Lawyers! I have but two in my dominions, and I believe that I shall hang one of …"
Lawyers! I have but two in my dominions, and I believe that I shall hang one of them the moment I get home!
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About Peter the Great (1672-1725)
Russian tsar (1682-1725) who Westernized Russia, founded St. Petersburg, and built Russia into a European great power. Closely associated with Catherine the Great (later Westernizing Russian empress). For an intellectual contrast, see Old Believers, Russian Orthodox traditionalist movement that rejected Patriarch Nikon's reforms and Peter's modernization — Peter's beard-shaving decrees, Western dress laws, and calendar changes triggered a religious-cultural schism — the founding poles of Russia's eternal 'European modernity vs Slavic tradition' debate that runs through Slavophiles, Solzhenitsyn, and contemporary Putin-era ideology.
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During a visit to Westminster Hall in London, upon learning about lawyers
Date: 1698
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