18: Turn And Face The Strange

The segments of Lecture 18 are:

• 18a: Turn and Face the Strange
• 18b: Rise of the Romanovs
• 18c: Peter the Great
• 18d: Russia as European Power
  
• 18e: Conclusions
  

Important terms, concepts, individuals, and events:

Tsar Mikhail, Patriarch Philaret, Tsar Alexei, Boris Morozov, Ulozhenie, Stenka Razin, Patriarch Nikon, Old Believers, Tsar Peter I, streltsy, Holy Synod, Great Northern War, Saint Petersburg, Poltava, Vitus Bering, Tsaritsa Catherine I, Treaty of Nerchinsk, Tsaritsa Elizabeth

Questions for consideration:

1. What was the management style of the first two Tsars, Mikhail and Alexei?
2. What changes did the Russian Orthodox Church undergo in the reigns of Tsars Alexei and Peter I?
3. How did Tsar Peter I change the face of Russia, and why? What did he fail to change?