How Did Peter Modernize Russia

Peter had returned from his journey through Europe, but Something troubled the tsar. The country he had left now seemed to the tsar not fitting to his persona and to the day and age. He felt that the people, ideas, religion, education, and government where all centered around ancients teaching. No place or person wanted to modernize or become better , to become like the people he had meet in his travels. Peters Russia sadly was to old and stuck in her ways, she was not even close enough to the standards of her brothers in Europe. This though only made the tsar more determined to bring Russia and her people out of the Middle Ages weather willingly or by force. His beloved Russia was going to join her brothers and become better then them if it was the last thing the tars would do..
Revolution had started and her people where first in line and the way to change was with reform. When Peter had first arrived he had a huge banquet for his boyars, priest, and closest friends, during the party he was disgusted by the way his people were dressed and with their beards.
He called them uncivilized dogs that looked like the Turks they hated, he had his English barbers shave all his men's breads off in front of all. That was the very first attempt to modernize his people and it wouldn't be the last dramatic reform. The government and church were next another major problem, many were corrupted politicians that leached of Russia. Peter with brute force killed and killed all that were corrupt and put his own men in to run. The church was wealthy, owned lots of land, and refused to modernize, Peter of course was not to stand for this disgust. In the the end he separated the church from the government, made it much weaker and forever changed its roll in its people and government. Finally education was one of peters biggest achievement he created schools of maths, navigation, medicine, engineering, and science and he kept creating till the day he died. Russia was beginning to modernize, more foreigners lived in Russian cities and mixed with Russia people, their western ideas and cultures were mixing with the Russian culture and creating a new modern life. Peter had started the chain of the modernization in Russia and the cruelty
came the salvation.

Peters start on his homelands was taking off, but then war would brake out now with the ottomans but with the Swedish. The preparation for war had begun, and the war that was to come would have long lasting consequences at home and abroad. Peter now not only was modernizing a country that's roots were still stuck in the past but also create many campaigns. The reforms put on his people cost money and the only way to earn more money was taxing. The many taxes already put on the people had made it hard for many and now with funds low more taxing was need to support the war. These taxes would lead to rebellions all over Russia, Peter was not only fighting the Swedish but now his own people. War with Sweden was exhausting and at points made Peter very ill, but even after all the illness, lose of live, rebellions, taxes, and modernization Peter would be victorious and also gain lots of land and forts one being modern St. Petersburg. In the end thought Russia would modernize because of Peters determination and speed, Russia would gain more land more water routes and a better economy and a stronger navy. Yet ironically the dream of taking over the Black Sea was never met even after all the work put into gaining It, Russia would win against the Swedish and win the Balkans and not the Black Sea. Peters main goal though had been Russia has come to the modern age, she'd melded with western cultures and had become as powerful as her brother in Europe after the war. Peter On February 7, 1725 At the age of fifty two with his beloved second wife Catherine at his side, died and left his legacy in the new roots of the new Russia.