Peter the Great — "The more you beat me, the more I will love you."
The more you beat me, the more I will love you.
The more you beat me, the more I will love you.
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"He who does not change, does not live."
"I have two hands, and I can work wonders with them."
"I have reformed my people, and now I must reform myself."
"I see nothing but good in following the example of the most civilized nations, and in introducing into Russia all that is useful and necessary."
"I know that I shall have to render an account to God for all my actions."
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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