The great transformer of Russia, the triumphant of the Battle of Poltava, the creator of the Russian Empire, a stormy and impressionable nature - this is how Peter I remains in the memory of his contemporaries and descendants. But at the same time, according to many historians, the despot and tyrant, who destroyed centuries-old Russian traditions, who broke the established way of life of Russians in a living, bloody way, who built the useless capital of the Russian Empire on the bones, is, according to the definition of church representatives, the “Antichrist” - this is him too. There is no consensus on the personality of the great Russian emperor. So what was he like - the man who “cut a window to Europe”?