Peter the Great

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd (Петроград) and later Leningrad (Ленинград), is the second-largest city in Russia, after Moscow, the nation's capital. It is situated on the River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. With an area of 1,439 square kilometers, Saint Petersburg is the smallest administrative division of Russia by area. The city had a population of 5,601,911 residents as of 2021, with more than 6.4 million people living in the metropolitan area. Saint Petersburg is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, the most populous city on the Baltic Sea, and the world's northernmost city of more than 1 million residents. As the former capital of the Russian Empire, and a historically strategic port, it is governed as a federal city.

Tsar/Emperor of Russia from 1682 to 1725

Norwegian territorial claim and volcanic island in the Bellingshausen Sea

room made of amber

African-born Russian general and military engineer (c.1696–1781)

Russian statesman and general

Russian diplomatic mission to Western Europe in 1697–98 led by Peter the Great

Russian diplomat (1660-1734)

1707-1708 Cassock revolt against Russian rule

uprising of the Moscow Streltsy regiments in 1698

1903 Imperial Fabergé egg

political forgery

Tutor, friend to Peter I of Russia

museum in Zaandam, the Netherlands

1709 treaty between Poland-Lithuania and Russia

regiment of young boys under Peter the Great

building of Russia

Jewish jester (c. 1665 – c.1740)

club founded by Peter I of Russia

Dutch physician and personal physician of Peter the Great (1674-1735)

17th-century Russian ceremonial warship

museum in Derbent, Russia

court jester of Peter I (1699-1763)

Maternal grandfather of Peter the Great

Russian statesman; friend of Peter the Great