Images

Grand Duchess Sophia at the Novodevichy Convent (1698), oil on canvas by Ilya Repin, 1879. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. Ilya Repin's 1879 painting portrays Sophia after her fall from power, confined to a cell in the...

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.

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...

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

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

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

A bust of the English scientist and cartographer Edmond Halley (1656-1742). The bust was made in 1904 by Henry Alfred Pegram. (Royal Greenwich Observatory Museum)

An image captured in 1986 of Halley's Comet, named after the English scientist and cartographer Edmond Halley (1656-1742) who accurately predicted its orbit in relation to Earth.

A map illustrating the state of the Russian Empire, c. 1796, during the reign of Ekaterina II Alekseyevna (born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst), commonly known as Catherine the Great. Longest ruling Russian Empress (1762 – 1796), she continued...