What would the long term reign of Peter III look like?

Let's say Peter III carries through his threat of sending Catherine to a nunnery, and any coup against him fails. What does his long term reign look like? What further policies does he enact after his inital wave of reform? A few suggestions:

- Greater emancipation of the serfs, allowing earlier urbanisation in the empire.
- More autonomy to the Baltic Governorates, perhaps giving them their own treasuries as model statelets for wider reform.
- Invitation for large scale settlement of Germans in Russia. Perhaps they could have more of a "fifth column" impact in a future Russian-German war.
- Less concern for settlement in the south, instead focusing on expansion into Poland. Perhaps a Pugachev-style revolt is unaddressed for longer.
- A different candidate for King of Poland, but who?
 
The Mad Monarchist said:
Emperor Peter III: There is no doubt that Tsar Peter III is one of those emperors you are not supposed to like, however, I think a great deal of injustice has been done to the man. Most of the worst things said about him were said by those who were trying to justify their betrayal and that should be kept in mind. Forced into a marriage he did not want by his aunt Elizabeth it was never a happy union. His wife, Catherine, wanted nothing to do with him, did not like his fondness for the military and he probably didn’t like her fondness for adultery. He ended the war with Prussia and even made an alliance with Prussia which has often been attacked since but which there was not much opposition to at the time and which was continued after his death. What did annoy many Russian elites was his determination to fight for Holstein-Gottorp his paternal duchy in a war against Denmark. The immense early praise he had been given for freeing the nobility from compulsory service and restoring their freedom to travel abroad was forgotten. He broke the trade monopoly held by the aristocracy and insisted that nothing should be imported that Russia could produce herself. He made it illegal for lords to kill peasants, granted freedom of religion (very controversial), made trials public and abolished the secret police. Yet, even with all of that, it was his determination to go to war with Denmark that proved the final straw and he was overthrown in a coup arranged by his wife Catherine and later murdered in 1762. He was not ideal, few are, but I do not believe he was anywhere near as terrible as his murderers claimed him to be.

Also, IMHO, Pyotr is only likely to ally or stay pro-Prussian as long as it is in his interests do so. He might not jump from the Prussian ship the minute the going gets heavy, but when he finds that the alliance (which will mean a reorienting of Russian policy (since Elizabeth went pro-French to get away from the Prussian/English relatives of Ivan VI and Anna Leopoldovna)) no longer suits his purposes, I think he will change course.

In my TL, he needs peace on his northern and western border - i.e. making friends with Sweden and Poland - due to him wanting to push south on a military campaign. But, I also have the feeling that peace with Prussia would've meant peace and possibly trade agreements with Britain.

During his 186-day period of government, Peter III passed 220 new laws which he had developed and elaborated during his life as a crown prince. Elena Palmer claims that his reforms were of a democratic nature.[10] He proclaimed religious freedom[11] — in those times a revolutionary step, that not even the advanced Western Europe had taken. He fought corruption within government, established public litigation and abolished the secret police — a repressive organ started under Peter I and intended to expose it as betrayer of the state for its mercilessness and torture methods.[10] Catherine recreated this institution and it remained present in Russia thereon.[10] He established[citation needed] obligatory education for aristocrats[clarification needed] — all aristocrats had to provide their children with education and report it to the senate. Furthermore, in some cities technical schools were established for middle and lower class children.[9] Peter began the reorganization[clarification needed] and modernization of the Russian army.[12]
One of his most popular reforms was the manifesto of February 1762 that exempted the nobility from obligatory state and military service (established by Peter the Great) and gave them freedom to travel abroad. On the day Peter submitted this manifesto, the parliament proposed building a pure gold statue of him, but Peter refused, saying that there must be much better uses for gold in the country.[9]
Peter III's economic policy reflected the rising influence of Western capitalism and the merchant class or “Third Estate” that accompanied it. He established the first state bank in Russia, rejected the nobility's monopoly on trade and encouraged mercantilism by increasing grain exports and forbidding the import of sugar and other materials that could be found in Russia.[13]
Peter's short reign also addressed serfdom law and the status of serfs within Russia. For the first time, the killing of a peasant by a landowner became an act punishable by law.[9][10] State peasants were given higher social status than estate peasants, and all peasants under the servitude of the church were transformed into the economy peasants similar to the state peasants. Peter also took further interest in church affairs, implementing his grandfather's plan to secularize church and monastic lands.

Palmer might give a bit of a whitewash of Peter, but I figure that it might be what's needed considering that the main authority on Peter that we've had for the last 200 years has been his wife who hated him
 
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