HIGHWAY 25 – THE RUSSIAN ATTEMPT TO CREATE A MATERIAL STATE – 1700s
Russian White Nights & Rulers: Tzar, Nobles & Byzantine Bishops of the Orthodox Church of Christ
A land of people that was a sleeping Giant who decided to awake when Peter the Great took over the rule of the lands called Russia. Peter was given credit for teaching Russia the way of the Sadducee European world. He modeled his nation after the material French lifestyle. He also modeled his nation after the famous biblical family of David of murder, as he killed his own son, Aleksey. But heck, he did go and pray to the Eastern Orthodox God and was forgiven from this murder.
You see, his son thought that he should have absolute rule and was the central figure that tried to stop the material modernization of Russia. Dad had to kill his son so he made sure that his future heirs got to live in his current world with his change.
Peter the Great died, there was a struggle for the throne, and eventually after a couple more family deaths Elizabeth took over the throne. She was one of Peter’s daughters. She was able to continue her father’s desire to modernize Russia and bring the Sadducee world into the country. Although you still had the Orthodox Christian Church and the land nobles in control, at least the major city of St. Petersburg looked glorious.
Plus, she did create the first Russian school of higher learning called Moscow University in the second city of this Empire. In addition, she empowered the academy of fine arts in 1755 and 1757 respectively.
Russia became an enlightened land. They even had a scientist and scholar to add to the coming invention parade of Russian Man who were now reading and sharing to make tomorrow better than today.
Their first scientist of importance was Mikhail Lomonosov. He discovered the atmosphere of Venus as well as created Russian poetry and verse by creating the rules and regulations for the Russian literary language. They were rules that prevented others from the freedom of new expressions because you were now required to think in the form that those before you thought. My point is someone’s suit may not fit you and to live in a society that demands this conformity is to limit that future from true actualization as they can only live in the past. The creation of rigid rules of language prevents the communication of the heart because it makes what you think be written in a linear controlled way.
Elizabeth died in 1762 and was replaced by Peter III. Peter, during the mid-1750s European wars for new order & control, sided with Prussia, as he was in love with the military style of the Prussian ruler, Frederick the Great. His goal was to emulate this warrior of the wooden lands of Prussia. One that knew the best way to kill as that is all he did in the land known for their barbaric treatment of the people.
Peter was the grandson of Peter the Great, but he was also the son of the Duke of Holstein and he was raised as a Protestant. Meaning he was raised to reject art of the living and just live in a black and white world of ruling orders of control. To the Russians he was considered a foreigner as they insisted on the ruling Tzar to abide by the controlling rules and order of the Russian Orthodox Church. So, Peter angered the Russian Nobles. He went against the Church, he imposed German military style into his troops and by establishing this alliance with the Prussians, he prevented Russia from gaining territory in the middle of the continent as they were about to do during the latest European war.
The wife of this Peter got sick of his line and overthrew her husband and had her lover Aleksey Orlov kill the Tzar and proclaimed herself Empress of Russia. This is the true story of how Catherine the Great took over Russia: Murder when she could.
Ironically, this particular Great was not a Russian. This new empress was in actuality a Prussian princess who had no claim to the throne of Russia. Her right to so rule was the fear she instilled and the fact that those who could help her rule, the military, followed her lead. Why? Because they would now gain control of the new coming Russian order.
The country became very militaristic, not materialistic.
The land nobles and their fruits of Mother Earth financed the army. The Banks did not get their hands on this land of the life savings and then physical bodies of the communities by selling war bonds.
They were a European power as they were the land that was pursued by Britain to maintain divided order in the lands of the Euro men. They were used by the British in the game of politics to offset the hunger that was appearing in central Europe with the rise of the Prussian armies. This land was serf country. War got man to travel and see the world. A lot of boys were only too happy to kill in the name of travel and adventure on the highway to having a purpose in their lives.
This essay is excerpted from Steven Machat’s Highways of Man. Learn more about the book at StevenMachat.com.