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Ivan The Boyar Analysis

Satisfactory Essays

Ivan:
-Their continual struggles for the reins of government to the detriment of the realm made a profound impression on Ivan and imbued him with a lifelong dislike of the boyars.
-One object of the reforms was to limit the powers of the hereditary aristocracy of princes and boyars (who held their estates on a hereditary basis) and promote the interests of the service gentry
-The increasingly resentful boyars had indeed opposed Ivan and plotted against him on occasion, but the reign of terror that Ivan initiated by the oprichnina proved far more dangerous to the stability of the country than the danger that it was designed to suppress

Peter:
-changed a lot in the culture of russia
-best known for his extensive reforms in an attempt to establish …show more content…

-he really worked on getting russia into europe alike peter the great, they had some of the same territorial ambitions
-Ivan felt that trade with Europe depended on free access to the Baltic sea and decided to turn his attention westward.
-in 1571; tatar incursion left Moscow burnt, leaving only the Kremlin standing

Peter:
-Peter acquired territory in Estonia, Latvia and Finland the places where Ivan was very unsuccessful
-peter was in search of a “warm water port where he could access and trade with the western civilizations year long
-after his great military success he settled down and very quickly built the city of St.Petersburg on the Gulf of Finland.
-in russia when you were in the military service was for life.

Analysis

Economic/ political Similarity #3
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Evidence (for both

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