How Did Peter The Great Westernize Russia

Peter the Great was one of Russia's greatest reformers, statesmen, organizers, and leaders. Russia was less developed than other European countries at that time because Russia had rejected Westernization. To rectify this, he went to many ways to modernize and westernize Russia. He founded St. Petersburg as a major Russian port city in the west. He also established it as the new capital, based on trade with the rest of Europe. New buildings and institutions were built there to modernize Russia, before that city was a Swedish swamp. He got experts to teach the people of Russia about technology in order to modernize Russia. He increased literary and scientific knowledge in Russia by modernizing and standardizing the Russian language; many Russians