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Peter the Great's Reforms: Westernizing Russia
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore Peter the Great's ambitious program to modernize and Westernize Russia in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. They discuss the tsar's famous beard tax, which forced boyars to shave their traditional beards as a symbolic break with the past; his introduction of Western-style clothing and manners at court; the establishment of the first Russian newspaper, Vedomosti; and the creation of a modern army and navy based on European models. The conversation also covers Peter's controversial founding of St. Petersburg as a 'window to the…
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