Why did Russia under Peter I remain a personal monarchy despite the Tsars own attempts to
Why did Russia under Peter I remain a personal monarchy despite the Tsar’s own attempts to inculcate loyalty to an impersonal state? ... It was upheld to maintain his own position. This was the accepted notion of the ‘state’ in Russia before the reign of Peter the Great. However, Peter tried to replace this notion of the ‘state’ with a more impersonal notion of the ‘state’ as an active political force to which both the monarch and his subjects owed an obligation to the ‘common good’.