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<p>[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 5462009, member: 12789"]She was a brutal regent, even foreign accounts back that up. And she had the "Streltsy" basically a hired militia on her side. But the victor, in this case Petr I, wrote the history, she did not. At any rate, even at 17 years old he was ambitious and even drilling soldiers, mock battles etc. Many of his later commanders were with him as a young man</p><p><br /></p><p>When he travelled to England he did remark that he thought the English were a barbaric people - only some 50 years before they executed King Charles I.</p><p><br /></p><p>When Petr I visited England in 1698 he visited the Royal Mint in London no less than four separate times. It is conjectured that he met with Sir Isaac Newton. His visits to the Royal Mint were notable in that he was apparently influenced to reform the coinage in Russia - which was still then medieval in nature with the wire kopeks and introduced a decimal based currency with milled coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 5462009, member: 12789"]She was a brutal regent, even foreign accounts back that up. And she had the "Streltsy" basically a hired militia on her side. But the victor, in this case Petr I, wrote the history, she did not. At any rate, even at 17 years old he was ambitious and even drilling soldiers, mock battles etc. Many of his later commanders were with him as a young man When he travelled to England he did remark that he thought the English were a barbaric people - only some 50 years before they executed King Charles I. When Petr I visited England in 1698 he visited the Royal Mint in London no less than four separate times. It is conjectured that he met with Sir Isaac Newton. His visits to the Royal Mint were notable in that he was apparently influenced to reform the coinage in Russia - which was still then medieval in nature with the wire kopeks and introduced a decimal based currency with milled coinage.[/QUOTE]
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