ABSTRACT
Building a new state structure was only part of the grandiose task that the great reformer of Russia had set out to accomplish. His field of vision encompassed not only the administrative structure, the economic policy, and military affairs, but also society itself—people and subjects. In the Petrine era society’s structure underwent no less change than the structure of authority or the economy. Of course, we may speak about social changes as a consequence of the complex of reforms—military, tax, and so forth. In any event, the reformer did a great deal to transform the social structure itself and to realize the grandiose notion of “producing the all-Russian subject people.”
