Peter the Great

Founded in 1724 by Peter the Great, it had educated both sides of the October Revolution—Kerensky and Lenin—as well as numerous writers and artists, including the poets Gumilyov and Blok, the composer Stravinsky, and the ballet director and impresario Diaghilev.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

Founded in 1724 by Peter the Great, it had educated both sides of the October Revolution—Kerensky and Lenin—as well as numerous writers and artists, including the poets Gumilyov and Blok, the composer Stravinsky, and the ballet director and impresario Diaghilev.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

Founded in 1724 by Peter the Great, it had educated both sides of the October Revolution—Kerensky and Lenin—as well as numerous writers and artists, including the poets Gumilyov and Blok, the composer Stravinsky, and the ballet director and impresario Diaghilev.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

Yeltsin was, as Joseph Brodsky wrote of Peter the Great, a “man of sober mind, though of frightful drinking habits.”

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

Yeltsin was, as Joseph Brodsky wrote of Peter the Great, a “man of sober mind, though of frightful drinking habits.”

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

Closer to hand was a pretty eighteenth-century garden, created to grow medicinal herbs by Peter the Great, where we watched the ducks in a large pond shaded by ancient trees.

Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

Seba's success as an apothecary and reputation as a collector was well known, even to the Russian tsar, Peter the Great, who often bought medicines from him and eventually bought the entirety of his first collection.

Jane Chafin: Is the Art World's One Percent Unraveling? A Fantastic Cabinet of Natural Curiosities Jane Chafin 2011

Seba's success as an apothecary and reputation as a collector was well known, even to the Russian tsar, Peter the Great, who often bought medicines from him and eventually bought the entirety of his first collection.

Jane Chafin: Is the Art World's One Percent Unraveling? A Fantastic Cabinet of Natural Curiosities Jane Chafin 2011

Closer to hand was a pretty eighteenth-century garden, created to grow medicinal herbs by Peter the Great, where we watched the ducks in a large pond shaded by ancient trees.

Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

A strange statue of Peter the Great, done long after his death and iconization by the Soviets, shows this driven man as having a huge body and a pinhead.

Peter Worthington: The New Russia Is Much Like the Old Russia Peter Worthington 2011