Peters Early Life- Foreign Affairs
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- Created on: 06-09-18 13:24
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- Peters Early Life- Foreign Affairs
- Failed Crimean Campaigns
- Aim- To drive the Turks from Europe
- Both 1687 and 1689 = Failed Campaigns
- Inadequate Supply Systems
- Unethusiastic and ill-prepared armies
- Both 1687 and 1689 = Failed Campaigns
- Aim- To drive the Turks from Europe
- The Great Embassy- 1697
- Aim- Diplomatic Links, Pursuing his interests
- Travelled through Swedish Held Riga, Prussia, Germany, Nethalands, England, Vienna for 18 Months
- IMAGE
- Went Incognito, not as a Tsar title
- His hosts were happy to serve him
- Peter ordered two Russians to be executed in the Nethalands as they embassed his hosts
- Vandalism in England visit
- ALLIANCES
- NO ALLIANCES FORMED FROM THE AIM PETER WANTED
- West was pre-occupied with Louis XII, possibly gaining control of Spain
- The West feared that France and Spain would emerge as a powerful european country
- The Holy Roman Emperor wanted to make peace
- 1699- Treaty Of Karlowitz. HRE makes Peace with the Ottomans
- A Possible Alliance with Augustus- Elector Of Saxony to the Polish Throne
- On Peters journey home, both met to discuss weaknesses of Sweden
- Both understood that Anti-Swedish Alliance might easily be reached
- On Peters journey home, both met to discuss weaknesses of Sweden
- West was pre-occupied with Louis XII, possibly gaining control of Spain
- NO ALLIANCES FORMED FROM THE AIM PETER WANTED
- MODERNISING RUSSIA
- New Technology- Modern Muskets and Ring Bayonets
- To fend off the enemy
- New Technology- Modern Muskets and Ring Bayonets
- TECHNICAL EXPERTS
- 800 Specialists- naval officers, shipwrights, engineers
- Western power agreed to train Russians in seafaring skills
- 35 Volunteers left behind (sons of noblemen)
- IMAGE
- Travelled through Swedish Held Riga, Prussia, Germany, Nethalands, England, Vienna for 18 Months
- Aim- Diplomatic Links, Pursuing his interests
- Failed Crimean Campaigns
- The Great Embassy Impact- Overall
- This initial aim of gaining diplomatic links = Was a Failure
- Extremely Costly, but had positive results = technical experts/meeting westernised people for Peter/technology
- the impact on Peter directly was more successful than the impact on Russia. VISITING THE WEST
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