Peter I (The Great)

Peter I of Alexis Romanoff and his second wife, Natalia Nalishkina. Peter grew up in a turbulent era of Russian history. His father was fighting for power between Alexis' first wife 's family, the Miloslavskayas family and Peter' s family, died young at the age of thirty. After a brief ruling by Peter's brother Fedall (1676-1682), his sister Sophia ruled Russia as a regent king from 1682 to 1689. In the meantime, Peter and his brother Ivan V have been regarded as common emperors until they reached adulthood.

David Peter I have established Russia as a major European country with a rapid westernization plan. During his overseas trip, Peter himself was trained at gun craftsmen and shipyards. His fundamental reform boycott was broken and there was no illegal Russian old tradition was prohibited. All sectors of society were influenced by reform and abuse of its execution, and his son, Alexis, was murdered (1718) by torture and there was doubt that he led conspiracy against his father. Peter did a great war with the Ottoman Empire, Persia, and especially Sweden.

Peter I's research was Ray Jay Oliva in the era of Peter the Great (1969). Ian Gray, Peter the Great (1960) is a comprehensive biography based on recent scholarships. An excellent explanation of Peter's rule is Vasilii O. Klyuchevsky translated by Liliana Archibald (1958). Benedict · Humphrey · Sumner made a brief and clear survey of Peter's position in Russia's Peter the Great and Russian history (1950). Sumner also wrote more professional Peter the Great and the Ottoman Empire (1949).

When Russian emperor Katherine the Great asked Emperor Peter I (Peter I) as the central figure of St. Petersburg (the city named after him), her intention was complicated. Catherine was the princess of a German who married the grandson of Peter I's grandfather and then beat the throne by defeating him with a coup. The purpose of this statue is to help her gain legitimacy by showing herself to one of Russia's great leaders who was known for the Western reform. She brought a French Rococo sculptor Étienne Maurice Falconet. He never carved a horse, he made a larger copper horse statue than Peter. Falconet designed a dramatic contrasting element, calm, a classical robe pointing quietly in the west, and his horse was full of primitive naturalism. Please refer to the picture on the second piece above. The right hand imitates Roman bronze