Peale sõjaväe muutis Peeter I ka õukonnaelu Euroopalikumaks, jagas Venemaa kubermangudeks, asendas Bojaaride duuma senatiga, lasi rajada palju manufaktuure, asutas kolleegiume, kehtestas Venemaal Juliuse kalendri, asutas Teaduste Akadeemia (1724) ning lasi luua ka palju uusi makse (nt: habeme-, korstna- ja aknamaksud, ning hiljem asendas need isikumaksega ehk pearahaga). Lisaks võidule Põhjasõjas vallutas Peeter I ka Türgilt Azovi (1696. aastal). Azov kaotati aga Türgi vastasel Pruti sõjakäigul 1711. aastal. Venemaa oli aga sõjas ka Iraaniga (1722-1723). Tänu sellele ühendati Venemaaga Kaspia mere lääne- ja lõunarannik. Peeter I tegevus Eestis: Peeter I tegevust ja mõju Eestile ei saa alahinnata. Kindlasti oli positiivne, et Peeter I tegevus elavdas mõneti Eesti majanduselu. Samuti stabiliseeris Venemaa võit Põhjasõjas Eesti- ja Liivimaa olukorda. Kadus vajadus tugeva müüriga kindlustatud linnade järgi
by the Ottoman Empire and Safavid Empire respectively in the south. Peter attempted to acquire control of the Black Sea, which would require expelling the Tatars from the surrounding areas. As part of an agreement with Poland that ceded Kiev to Russia, Peter was forced to wage war against the Crimean Khan and against the Khan's overlord, the Ottoman Sultan. Peter's primary objective became the capture of the Ottoman fortress of Azov, near the Don River. In the summer of 1695 Peter organized the Azov campaigns to take the fortress, but his attempts ended in failure. Peter returned to Moscow in November 1695 and began building a large navy. He launched about thirty ships against the Ottomans in 1696, capturing Azov in July of that year. On 12 September 1698, Peter officially founded the first Russian Navy base, Taganrog. Grand Embassy Peter knew that Russia could not face the Ottoman Empire alone. In 1697 he traveled
Chekov Lady and the Lapdog Reid about Chekov: The characters in Chekhov's plays are never fully "known" as a writer, he seems to delight in maintaining a sense of indeterminacy, and unknowability, about them. The bare facts are always laughably inadequate to the complexity of "real" people. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on 29 January (New Style), 1860, in Taganrog, a small port on the Sea of Azov, in southern Russia. As the son of a grocer and grandson of a serf, Chekhov was a first-generation intellectual. His modest background and upbringing are crucial to his development as a writer. Chekhov always felt that he missed out on childhood. It was a very hard lifeand it may have contributed to his poor health: he succumbed later on to the"family disease", tuberculosis, which led to his early death at the age of 44
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