Economic reforms of Peter 1

The young king set strategic goals: free access to the sea for the country, development of trade. They could be realized only as a result of victory in the war. And the army's ability to fight successfully at that time directly depended on the level of the state economy, and primarily on the development of such industries as metallurgy, textile and cloth business.

Therefore, the economic reforms of Peter 1 at the very beginning of the 18th century were aimed at accelerating the construction of metallurgical plants. Almost all of them specialized in the manufacture of nuclei, guns and other weapons. To old factories added and added new ones. And their value was not as a metal, but that they were a short distance from the battles. Great importance for the Russian economy, for the development of the monetary business, was the construction of plants in the Urals, especially the founding of a large silver mining plant. In parallel, in the big cities of the country, shipyards were built, on which a huge number of workers worked. A lot of factories were built by private individuals, without the involvement of official money. The economic reforms of Peter 1, connected with the creation of metallurgical production, allowed the country to make a tangible leap in development in just twenty-five years. In connection with the increase in the size of the tsarist army, the need for the development of a textile manufactory, primarily engaged in the manufacture of canvas for sails, cloth for soldiers' clothing, has also increased.

The next economic reform of Peter 1 touched the creation of craft craftsmanship. Despite the fact that in Western Europe this phenomenon was already becoming archaic by that time, it allowed the Russian state to control the quality of products produced by each artisan. From now on, the master had to put his brand on the product. In addition, the creation of workshops contributed to the spread of the practice of apprenticeship.

The economic reforms of Peter 1, naturally, could not but affect trade within the country. It continued to consist of several levels. The lowest of them was represented by uyezd and rural trades, for which peasants and small merchants gathered every seven days. And the highest - wholesale purchases made by large merchants. The network of customs within the country continued to operate, the size of the annual amounts received in them testified to the active movement of products. To even greater development of trade led the construction of canals, which combined the waterways of several rivers.

An undoubted role in improving the economy of the state was played by the reforms of Peter the Great regarding foreign trade. The ports of other cities, St. Petersburg, Astrakhan, Riga, Narva, Vyborg, and Revel, replaced the only port of Arkhangelsk with a large turnover.

The economic reforms of Peter the Great had the best effect on the revenues of the state treasury. Significantly increased the name of goods, which only she had the right to trade. Potato, tar, cowhide, salt, chalk, yuft, tobacco, fish oil and other goods were added to fish glue, potash, caviar, resin and rhubarb. Merchants could buy back from the treasury the right to sell the listed goods, then they became monopolists. Sometimes such monopolies were distributed by the Tsar himself.

Peter 1 tried to act in the interests of domestic producers, young entrepreneurs. To this end, he issued decrees that forbade the import of any kind of goods into the country. For example, once Ryumin had built a needle factory, Peter 1 issued a decree banning the importation of metal needles into Russia. The peak of such activities of the tsar was the formation in 1724 of the Customs Tariff, which prohibited the importation of even high-quality goods into the country if domestic production satisfied domestic demand.