Abstract
The article examines the historical phenomenon of Peter I in the context of the specifics of the Eurasian cultural and political tradition, which N. Trubetskoy metaphorically named “the legacy of Genghis Khan”. The specifics of this tradition lie in its fundamental difference from the model of European feudalism. Here, the selection of the ruling class was carried out according to moral qualities, and people’s life was based on self-government (“people’s monarchy”). The scrapping of this tradition, carried out by Peter I, consisted in replacing the moral criterion of selection with the pragmatic one, which led to the degeneration of the ruling class; and replacing the people’s monarchy with Western absolutism, which resulted in the conflict between the state and the people.
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