How Peter the Great tried candies and built ships
Undoubtedly, Peter the Great had a huge impact on the entire Russian history. But it is extremely interesting to study its influence on a single region, and especially if this region is your small homeland. In this regard, I want to tell the most interesting stories about the bond of Peter the Great with the Ryazan land.The mother of the future emperor, Natalya Kirillovna Naryshkina, was closely connected with the Ryazan county. The tsarina's father, Kirill Poluektovich Naryshkin, and her younger brother, Lev Kirillovich, who headed the Posolsky order, had houses and yards in Pereyaslavl-Ryazansky. They say that the first candies that little Peter tried were the Ryazan sweets that his mother brought from her native village of Aleshnia. They were pieces of fruit boiled in honey and slightly dried.Peter the Great, unlike other tsars, travelled a lot around the country, visited abroad. It is authentically known that twice he passed by our city along the Oka River, for the first time in 1695. The caravan of ships stopped for the night opposite Pereyaslavl, on the left bank of the Oka. The second time it happened in 1722, when the emperor went on a Persian campaign. In honor of the arrival of the sovereign, an artillery salute was staged in our city.According to one version, the name of my parents' hometown, Korablino, was due to the fact that passing through the Ryazhsky district, the emperor saw vast areas of forests in this place. After that, by his order, they were cut down and taken to St. Petersburg for the construction of the fleet.However, the reign of the first emperor had a huge impact both on Ryazan and on the country as a whole. Therefore, stories about this great man have been passed down for centuries. 