Peter the Great

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His reform was revolutionary in character, and his government consequently partook of those conditions of existence, and of action, which have always been the inseparable concomitants of a political and social state of revolution. Again, his government, in spite of its revolutionary character, was the outcome, to a certain extent, of the former course of the national history, customs, and traditions. Of this fact Peter himself was evidently conscious. On one of the triumphal arches, raised at M...oscow, on the occasion of the peace with Sweden, in 1 72 1, the effigy of the reigning Tsar was associated with that of Ivan the Terrible. This idea emanated from the Duke of Holstein. The uncle seems to sanction the nephew's action, and thus to claim an historical connection, ' Jeliaboujski, Memoirs, pp. 214, 225.
PRINCIPLES AND SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT 177 which is, indeed, constantly confirmed by all that nephew's acts and ways of thought.^ But, though principles might differ, practice daily gave the lie to theory.


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