Respuesta :

As Europe develops driven by the wind of enlightened absolutism, Russia stagnates, peasants are disenfranchised and impoverished by many levies, mining resources are unused, factories are outdated, the state apparatus is corrupt, and the army, defeated in the Crimean War, is in a catastrophic state.

Explanation:

  • The size and strength of a ruler lies in his ability to develop and harness all the power of a people at a particular historical moment for a great, whole-hearted purpose, and to unite in his personality the best and most fruitful qualities of that people in order to bring him forward despite all obstacles.
  • Such a ruler was undoubtedly Peter the Great.

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