HISTORY 332 Lecture 3: Empresses, or Strategies of Imperial Rule in the 18th Century
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Empresses, or strategies of imperial rule in the 18th century: emperor peter the great tsar-transformer, peter restarted history on january 1st, 1700 i) ii) iii) Changed the conditions of military service, the militarization of society, you name it, he changed it. He dramatically changed his presentation of himself as russia, to make this contrast sharper. He looks more european because he got rid of his orthodox beard, he wanted to look less exotic and look more familiar to the western eye. Peter and aleksei are using different forms for their portraits to show different ways of how they want to appear to people. She is trying to be masculine, but is showing her leg and her face which is considered to be an enormous asset. One claims that he is peter the iii and is back to make things right: autocracy and dynasticism revised: election/selection of dynastic rulers, autocracy may have more of a collective aspect than we expected b)
