After this emperor appointed his former tutor as the "Prince-Pope" of a group of his drinking buddies, hedecided to have his "Drunken Synod" parody the sviatki folk custom. This emperor allowed the black generalAbram Gannibal, the grandfather of a fa
After this emperor appointed his former tutor as the "Prince-Pope" of a group of his drinking buddies, hedecided to have his "Drunken Synod" parody the sviatki folk custom. This emperor allowed the black generalAbram Gannibal, the grandfather of a famous poet, to rise to a position of power in his court. During a powerstruggle between the Naryshkin and Miloslavsky families, this ruler's sister Sophia encouraged a rebellion ofthe musket-wielding streltsy regiments. This ruler learned shipbuilding in the Netherlands as part of his"Grand Embassy," and he attempted to westernize his country by making the boyars shave their beards. For 10points, name this modernizing tsar of Russia who won the Great Northern War. 