Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-01-05 | Page 4 | Man Who Made Russia

The Tue Man Jan an Made R Russia Speaking of courageous s reto reform erSt Czar Peter the Great of ot Rusia Rus Ru Russia Rust sia in the eight eighteenth nth century it set let one of the best patterns in all his his- tor tory Hendrik Van Loon the his hij torIan sa says s 's i It is not easy to give a list o othe of the reforms which he brought brough about The czar worked In furious haste He followed no system He lie issued decrees with wit such rapidity rapidity rap rap- that tha it is difficult to keep keei count of them Peter seemed t to feel that everything that had ever eve happened before was entirely wrong The whole of ot Russia Russi therefore must be changed within the shortest possible time Theold The Thi Theold old system of or government ha had been abolished over night The Th duma or convention of nobles ha had been dismissed sed and in its Us stead tead the czar had surrounded himself himsel with an advisory board of state stal tate officials called the senate Russia Russi was divided into eight large proy inces Roads were constructed Towns were built Industries were created wherever it pleased th the czar Canals were dug and mines mine were opened in the mountains o othe ot of the east In this land of lI iterate Illiterates schools were founded Dutch nava naval engineers and tradesmen and ond ai ar t ns from rom all over the he he world T were encouraged to move to Ku Russia sia Printing shops were established established but all aU books must be first firs fin read by the imperial censors Th The duties of c each class of society were carefully written down in a new nd law and arid the entire system of ot civil and criminal laws was gathered Into a series of printed volumes volume The old Russian costumes were abolished and policemen a armed d with scissors watching all th the country rO roads ds changed the Ion tong long longhaired haired Russians suddenly suddenly- into a pleasing imitation of oC the smooth smoot shaven west Europeans While the czar was iaz away from home a sudden rebellion sprang up Th The czar appointed himself himel f executioner in chief chiet and the rebels wei were wei hanged and quartered and killed kille to the last man Sister Sophia Sophi who had been cn head of the rebel rebel- rebellion rebellion lion was l locked up in a cloister When Czar Peter was away on a second trip to increase his bis know knowl- knowledge knowl- knowl edge of the outside world there thereas was as another rebellion This time tim the reactionaries reaction followed t th the leadership of Peters Peter's half son Alexis Alexis was beaten t death in his pr prison on cell and th thel friends of this rebellion were marched thousands of drear dreary rearY miles to their final destination i ithe in iD inthe the Siberian lead mines After that no further outbreaks of popi popular 1 lar discontent took place Until the time of his death Peter could coul reform in peace 1