Church reform of Peter I as an attempt to "westernization" of Orthodoxy

Long, more than two centuries of absence of the Patriarchate, was the result of the reformist activities of Peter I Alekseevich, called the Great (1672-1725). This article is devoted to one aspect of the reforms of the Emperor. Currently, it seems quite valid all the reforms of Peter I described as the “Westernization” of Russia, and to conduct religious reform as an attempt to “Westernization” of Orthodoxy. Peter I, after his famous trip to Europe, tended to establish in the Homeland, a new system of relations of state power and the Church, on the model of the Protestant European States.