Peter the First

The great converter of Russia, the triumpham of the Poltava battle, the creator of the Russian Empire, a stormy and impressionable nature - so remains Peter I in the memory of contemporaries and descendants. But at the same time, according to many historians, despot and Tyrant, destroying the centuries-old Russian traditions, lively, with blood broke the well-established lifeguard of Russians, built on the bones not the necessary capital of the Russian Empire, by definition of representatives of the Church, & Quot, Antichrist & Quot - This is also he. There is no consensus about the identity of the great Russian emperor. So what was he - a man, & quot, who burned the window to Europe & quot,?