Today at 13:10 Moscow time at the Russian Radio University! The subject of the program: "From royal power to imperial rule: Petrov's nestlings" In Soviet cinema, it was customary to present Peter the Great as a tough ruler, surrounded by smart peasants, harpies, "tobacco captains" against a background of lazy and mediocre boyars. But was it really so, could such great reforms be carried out with a small number of "tobacco captains"? Who were "Petrov's nestlings", what was the Russian aristocracy like during the Troubles and the evening of Peter the Great's reign, when thoughts about "Westernization" appeared in Russia, was this "Westernization" a reworking of the Russians in the style of the West, how and when Russian students were sent to the Russians, what was it for the Russians and Western Europe to study. Cromwell, why did the Scots "thanks" to Oliver Cromwell run to Russia, why Tsar Eyal Kesi Mikhailovich failed to save the English King Charles I, why nowadays there is talk of some special civilizational path to "Holy Russia" and was the era of "Holy Russia" holy, when and why did the service class - the aristocracy - arise in Russia, were there Russian aristocrats walking caricatures in wigs Sophia, why is it already under a prince of Vesini, Sophia Vesini. abolish serfdom, why Peter the Great himself could not free the peasants, why the main aristocratic families of Russia supported Peter, why the Russian aristocrats could not take themselves as an example of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and behave like the Poles, how the Russian aristocrats treated the Polish lords and the "fake" Russian tsars, how the Russian aristocracy showed itself during the Troubles, how Europe was amazed by the victory In Poltava, why Peter sought to create the Russian officer corps from the officer corps, and watched the Russian officer corps. Listen to another conversation from our "Peter the Great and His Empire" series.

Today at 13:10 Moscow time at the Russian Radio University! The subject of the program: "From royal power to imperial rule: Petrov's nestlings" In Soviet cinema, it was customary to present Peter the Great as a tough ruler, surrounded by smart peasants, harpies, "tobacco captains" against a background of lazy and mediocre boyars. But was it really so, could such great reforms be carried out with a small number of "tobacco captains"? Who were "Petrov's nestlings", what was the Russian aristocracy like during the Troubles and the evening of Peter the Great's reign, when thoughts about "Westernization" appeared in Russia, was this "Westernization" a reworking of the Russians in the style of the West, how and when Russian students were sent to the Russians, what was it for the Russians and Western Europe to study. Cromwell, why did the Scots "thanks" to Oliver Cromwell run to Russia, why Tsar Eyal Kesi Mikhailovich failed to save the English King Charles I, why nowadays there is talk of some special civilizational path to "Holy Russia" and was the era of "Holy Russia" holy, when and why did the service class - the aristocracy - arise in Russia, were there Russian aristocrats walking caricatures in wigs Sophia, why is it already under a prince of Vesini, Sophia Vesini. abolish serfdom, why Peter the Great himself could not free the peasants, why the main aristocratic families of Russia supported Peter, why the Russian aristocrats could not take themselves as an example of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and behave like the Poles, how the Russian aristocrats treated the Polish lords and the "fake" Russian tsars, how the Russian aristocracy showed itself during the Troubles, how Europe was amazed by the victory In Poltava, why Peter sought to create the Russian officer corps from the officer corps, and watched the Russian officer corps. Listen to another conversation from our "Peter the Great and His Empire" series.