Peter the Great was an intelligent and ambitious ruler. His main goal was to get Russia out of the dark ages, and he would do anything to accomplish this (tax peasants for a military, traveled around...
Enlightened Monarchy also called benevolent despotism, is a type of government formed in the 18th Century where absolute monarchs sought legal, social, and educational reforms. The Enlightenment...
Well Peter the great for example modernized the Russian army and the Russian navy and improved Russian farming. now king Louis XIV, everyone in the kingdom thought that his authority was coming...