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Among Peter’s social reforms, he introduced the mixing of genders, new holidays/ways of celebrating, and new rules on personal appearance and clothing. As we know that his goal was to pull Russia onto the European stage, these reforms make sense. … Continue reading →

As Saunders writes, the Decembrists were primarily an organization of military intelligentsia – 253/289 men sentenced were officers at one point or another (pp. 97). In popular culture, they are often remembered as bureaucrats, writers, academics, and Freemasons, but what they had … Continue reading →