Armia Piotra I gwarantem mocarstwowej pozycji Rosji w Europie
The Army of Peter I as the Guarantor of the Russia Superpower Position in Europe

Summary/Abstract: The reform of the army conducted by Tsar Peter the Great had only one goal - to strengthen the position of Russia in the Old Continent and the realisation of guidelines of the imperial policy of the state which translated into a systematic conquest of the lands belonging to Russian neighbours. A large, well organised and well-equipped army, based on the latest war technology of Western Europe, made a tool enabling to realise goals of the imperial policy of Russia. Tsar Peter the Great, creating the large and efficient army, put in motion a military mechanism that forced his successors not as much as maintain it as to improve its structure continuously. It should be emphasised here that the military reform of Peter the Great had its basis in the 1716 Military Code which as a solid “legislative fundament” was in force to the nineteenth century (it was alternatively used in the eighteenth-century armies of the Crown and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania).

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