Peter the Great — "I have no patience for those who resist progress."
I have no patience for those who resist progress.
I have no patience for those who resist progress.
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"I have conquered for myself, but I have conquered for Russia."
"I have left my subjects more enlightened, but poorer."
"Members of the guilds purveying for our household must shave their beards and moustaches. But, if it happens that some of them do not wish to shave their beards and moustaches, let a yearly tax be col…"
"The more I see of other countries, the more I love my own."
"Drunkenness is the root of all evil."
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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