Peter's Contributions To Immigrate To France During The 1700s

1. Peter decreed that the nobles, merchants, and townspeople wear German, rather than French, clothes, seeing as the French kings and their palaces were objects of emulation throughout Europe because since France was a powerful empire, he did not want to show them how much he valued their culture so that they would not have the upper hand in diplomatic affairs. Germany, however, was not very powerful so did not matter if Russia took their style but yet Peter would still acquire the western taste he wanted. Copying the palaces in France were different because that was so show their power and wealth in comparison to France’s not because he liked their style.

2. Peter’s decree encouraging foreign soldiers and artisans to emigrate to Russia and his Statute for the College of Manufactures suggest that the state of its military forces and economy as early 1700s was
Russia didn’t have a navy prior to 1700 because they did not gain part of the Baltic until the end of the Great Northern War which meant that they were landed locked until then. Also, they did not have the technology advancement to build a navy until they sent students abroad to learn and come back to Russia with the information on how to build and successfully navigate a ship. That decree had not been announced until 1714.

4. According to Peter, the fact that nobles could gain high ranks in the army without starting from the bottom ranks was an issue in the army because they could be promoted with no military skill. He intended to address it by declaring that nobles could not be promoted until serving in the lowest ranks as a private. This decree suggest that the power and benefits of the Russian nobility was not much when he came to the army. Although the nobility did have power, Peter the Great did not let them take advantage of their power so much so that they had an unfair advantage to the others in the army. Peter the Great limited the power and the benefits of the nobles as seen in the