[Dragaera] Peter the Great WAS:Re: Unstoppable Force vs ImmovableObject

[Shawn Burns]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 
> [mailto:dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info] On Behalf Of Martin Wohlert
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 3:17 PM
> To: dragaera at dragaera.info
> Subject: [Dragaera] Peter the Great WAS:Re: Unstoppable Force 
> vs ImmovableObject
> 
> "Louis Eastman" <almagaiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >I would bet my soul that wasn't true for Peter the Great. In 
> my mind I 
> >see him getting drunk and roaring for prostitutes.
> 
> The guy who started the reforms of Russia into a more Western nation?
> While that may be true in your mind, I doubt it's true 
> elsewhere. ;) While he did outlaw the Boyars from having 
> beards, and tortured his son, I don't see him as a roaring drunk.
> 

Peter's court was well-known for its revelry. Peter was a huge bear of a man
who liked to play jokes on his courtiers, much of the time relying on his
own ability to outdrink them in order to find some way to humiliate,
torment, or punish them. For instance, staying up drinking all night then
waking up his courtiers in the morning to go cut down some trees despite
their horrible hangovers.

He may have been a reformer, but that doesn't mean he wasn't a partier.

Shawn