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The expansion and consolidation of the Russian Empire around 1725 marked a fundamental transformation in Russia’s place within Europe and Eurasia. During...

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

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.

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...

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

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

Peter the Great (r. 1682-1725) in Russian dress during the Grand Embassy (1697-1698). Austrian National Library, Vienna.

Annunciation with Saint Peter Martyr, painting by Fra Angelico, photograph by Erik Möller, Florence, 19 May, 2005. In Cell 3 of the San Marco Convent, Fra Angelico painted the Annunciation with Saint Peter the...