Peter the Great and His Times

S1, E19: In 1689, 17-year-old Tsar Peter finds his celebratory way into the court, 600 km southwest of Moscow. He confuses the grandeur of the Kremlin with the fringe area, and he prefers the cheerful life with his friends to the etiquette at the court. Russia is quite a backward country. There’s a lot of analphabets, the nobility is conceited and the judiciary is corrupt. Tsar Peter tries to build up a modern Russia…