The result was that the country once more enjoyed peace; pretenders to the throne no longer were countenanced; old feuds were healed; diplomatic relations were formed with other countries and Russia began to take her just place among the civilized nations of the then Western world. Throughout the reign, peace was consistently observed and aimed at, as the prime object and necessity of the administration, in order that the country wasted by so many years of war and tyranny might have a time of convalescence.
Perhaps the most familiar and true comparison to be made, in order to illustrate the progress of Russia under the first Romanoff, is the case of Mexico under President Porfirio Diaz. As Diaz made modern Mexico, so Michael Romanoff founded modern Russia.
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From General Nelson A. Miles
Thrilling Stories of The Russian-Japanese War, 1904
