Today at 13:10 Moscow time at the Russian Radio University! The subject of the program: "The Economy of Peter the Great: From a Backwater to a Superpower of the 18th Century" What was the Russian economy before Peter, are the myths about Russian cups and saucers true before Peter, who were the economists and economic celebrities of Peter's time, what Peter the Great said about trade and merchants, what are the hundreds of salon and cloth merchants, how Pushkin wrote about visiting merchants in "The Story of Pan-European Trade" of Russia, what were the problems of the pan-European trade of Russia, what were the problems of the pan-European trade of Russia, routes and opportunities to trade profitably, how the Swedish king Gustav Adolf ordered not to let the Muscovites into the Baltic region, how developed popular trade is in Russia, why Russian peasants were passionate traders, why peasant crafts were created, why in the movie "Alex Navandersky" the owner of a postal workshop chain Intentionally wrongly described, was there a period of chivalry in Russia, about peddlers and barge drivers, why the Pole and Liszewski saw the Russian serf as much freer than Polish cotton, how the boyars established factories and workshops, why the weak development of trade in Russia was predetermined by the geographical changes of Russia alone that suffered from the geographical changes of Russia. Europe, how Peter the Great sent the sons of the nobles and merchants to Europe for state money, why the films "Captain Tobacco" and "Peter the Great's Arab" are not reliable, how Peter the Great first established trade consulates in Europe, how many and what kind of factories were organized under Peter, how Russian production broke out for export, why Russian iron became better than the best Swedish in the world, who and what origin were the Demidovs, why Peter's inspector Tatishchev considered Demidov's enterprises more successful than the sovereign's, did Peter the Great study Hobbes's intensive property enterprises, why did he establish the Russian theory of intensive property in France. Why did Peter the Great devise widespread privatization.