Modern politicians use in speech a variety of phraseological units and paremias of the era the Peter the Great, both in a conventional and a transformed forms. Idiomatic expressions of this period are used by the speaker to actualize the opposition "friend and foe" (in-group/out-group), which can be intensified thanks to metalanguage comments.
Moreover, phraseologisms and paremias of the era the Peter the Great are peculiar guidelines that help to construct and maintain the image of a politician and demonstrate his belonging to a particular society or a group.