Chinese Art, 2000 BC - 1800 AD

Preobrazhenskoe is the town which the young Peter the Great of Czarist Russia spent his teen years at to get away from the oppressive regent Sophia. While Peter's half-retarded brother and co-Czar spent his days carrying out the court ritual under Sophia's watchful eye at the Kremlin in Moscow, Peter was busy building up his "play" army, drilling them daily, acting like a drummer boy or bombadier in his own "play" army, which he would later use to dispose of Sophia once and for all at the age of 17 and claim true power over the throne. Preobrazhenskoe was also the site that Peter used to mock the court and high-church officials by assigning his own mock-style officials with fake titles, and where Peter gained a lot of foreign German (hence Western) influence that would affect his reign style and policy later.