He established "the Most Drunken Council of Fools and Jesters" to antagonize the Church hierarchy and, more seriously, instituted a "Holy Synod" which would oversee it. He also divided his empire into eight regions, created a Senate that would rule in his absence, increased his tax base by abolishing the distinction between slave and serf, and designed the Table of Ranks to make promotion meritocratic. Furthermore, with the Treaty of Nystadt he became the victor of the Great Northern War. FTP name this man who defeated Sweden's Charles XII at the 1709 Battle of Poltava, the great Westernizing 
He established "the Most Drunken Council of Fools and Jesters" to antagonize the Church hierarchy and, more seriously, instituted a "Holy Synod" which would oversee it. He also divided his empire into eight regions, created a Senate that would rule in his absence, increased his tax base by abolishing the distinction between slave and serf, and designed the Table of Ranks to make promotion meritocratic. Furthermore, with the Treaty of Nystadt he became the victor of the Great Northern War. FTP name this man who defeated Sweden's Charles XII at the 1709 Battle of Poltava, the great Westernizing tsar of Russia.
He established "the Most Drunken Council of Fools and Jesters" to antagonize the Church hierarchy and, more seriously, instituted a "Holy Synod" which would oversee it.