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Portrait of Russian Tsar Peter I the Great by Godfrey Kneller, painted between 11 January and 21 April 1698, when Peter the Great was in London visiting William III of England. The Royal Collection. The portrait was Peter's gift to William...

The 1903 Peter the Great Egg by Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920). The egg was given by Tsar Nicholas II (r. 1894-1917) to his wife Alexandra Feodorovna. The egg commemorates the bicentenary of the founding of St. Petersburg by Peter the Great...

The expansion and consolidation of the Russian Empire around 1725 marked a fundamental transformation in Russia’s place within Europe and Eurasia. During this period, the Russian state shifted from a relatively inward-looking tsardom into...

Portrait of Peter I of Russia, oil on canvas by Maria Giovanna Clementi (1690-1761).

Portrait of Peter I, oil on canvas by Jean-Marc Nattier. The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.

Peter I on his deathbed, oil on canvas by Ivan Nikitich Nikitin. 1725. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.

Peter the Great Meditating the Idea of Building St Petersburg at the Shore of the Baltic Sea, by Alexandre Benois, 1916.

Restored monument of Peter the Great (r. 1682-1725) learning shipbuilding in the city of Zaandam, the Netherlands, in 1697. Originally erected in 1911, removed in 1918 and restored in the 1990s, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. A copy of this...

Peter the Great's ship, rigged with a sail and a mast with the help of Dutch carpenters.

Detail of Practice fight on the IJ in honour of Tsar Peter the Great on 1 September 1697, oil on canvas, by Abraham Storck, c. 1700. Het Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam.