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6. Azov campaigns (first failure and second a success as Peter fixed the supply trains and got barges and more seige equipment. Resulted in Russia taking Azov a important outlet and fort in the black sea)

  • 1691 & 1692
  • 1694 & 1695
  • 1695 & 1696
  • 1697 & 1698

7. First Russians sent west to learn seamenship

  • 1698
  • 1700
  • 1695
  • 1694

8. Peter the Great dies and Catherine I (his wife inherits)

  • 1723
  • 1719
  • 1725
  • 1718

9. Law on Imperial succession passed that allowed Tsar to elect successor

  • 1722
  • 1725
  • 1710
  • 1717

10. Table of ranks (Established by Peter to make system more meritocratic)

  • 1719
  • 1716
  • 1722
  • 1715

11. Russia reach mouth of riva Neva and form St Petersburg after the tide of war changes as shown by two smaller battles the year prior in Erestfer and Hummelshof

  • 1703
  • 1701
  • 1702
  • 1705

12. Trade statute banning forigeners from domestic trade. Showed Russian merchants more confident in their worth however not modernising at all

  • 1667
  • 1663
  • 1669
  • 1678

13. Senate system founded (based on Swedish model to replace the Boyar Duma. It acted as a more efficienct system to collect taxes and organise administration etc)

  • 1706
  • 1711
  • 1715
  • 1709

14. Ulozhenie (codified serfdom/ class system for the next 200 years)

  • 1655
  • 1670
  • 1649
  • 1644

15. Mon'y Prikaz founded that appropriated Church income a year after Peter appointed his own Patriarch Yavorsky

  • 1721
  • 1703
  • 1701
  • 1720

16. Census and Poll tax

  • 1709
  • 1716
  • 1719
  • 1707

17. Persian campaign to gain Caucasion provinces

  • 1922-1923
  • 1920-1921
  • 1918-1919
  • 1911-1912

18. Don Cossack revolt (made up of many deserters that ran from serfdom)

  • 1701
  • 1707
  • 1703
  • 1705

19. Treaty of Altranstadt Augustus renounced claim to throne and left Peters anti Swede alliance

  • 1707
  • 1706
  • 1705
  • 1708

20. Education decree (all Russian 10- to 15-year-old children of the nobility, government clerks, and lesser-ranked officials must learn basic mathematics and geometry, and should be tested on the subjects at the end of their studies. Modernising effect)

  • 1720
  • 1714
  • 1715
  • 1721