Portrait of Peter I

The artist is anthropov

Peter I the Great (Petr Alekseevich; May 30 / June 9, 1672, Moscow − January 28 /8 February, 1725, St. Petersburg) − The last king of all Rus’ from the Romanov dynasty (from 1682) and the first Emperor All -Russian (since 1721). He was the fourteenth child of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, but the first from the second wife, Queen Natalia Kirillovna (nee Naryshkina). The first of the Russian kings in 1698 began large -scale reforms of the Russian state and public way. Reigned from April 27 / May 7, 1682 to January 28 / February 8, 1725.

The 400th anniversary of the Romanov house. SPb, 2013. With. 112.

Peter I Alekseevich [Peter the Great (May 30 [June 9] 1672 – January 28 [February 8] 1725) – the last king of all Rus’ (from April 27, 1682) and the first Emperor All -Russian (from October 22, 1721). Representative of the Romanov dynasty. The youngest son of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and his second wife Natalia Kirillovna (nee Naryshkina).

Peter I is depicted in the uniform of the Preobrazhensky regiment and the imperial mantle, with the Order of the Order of Andrew the First -Called. On the table is the crown of the Russian Empire. The emperor points to the text of the manifesto of 1721, which was revealed in the book, with which he established the Synod, the body of collegial administration of the Church instead of the traditional patriarchate. The portrait was written by Alexei Anthropov, who served since 1761 a painter under the Synod. Elena Stolbova. Exhibition catalog in Malaga "The Romanov dynasty". 2017. With. 132.