Peter I (1672–1725)

The collection is timed to coincide with the 350th anniversary since the birth of the first Emperor of all the Russias Peter I, titled “the Great” for his service to the Fatherland. The collection features over 600 depository items: scientific and popular publications of XVIII-XX centuries, dedicated to the personality of the innovator and his reforms; documentary prose of XVIII-XIX centuries, including the compositions of the first biographers of Peter I, collections of anecdotes and legends about him; publications of XVIII century, selected by Peter I to be printed in the Civil Script; collections of documents, decrees, letters of Peter I and selected issues of the most important legislative acts of the Peter’s era; maps, plans, drafts and drawings from the “Collection of Peter I” of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, journals and other archival materials; images of the monuments dedicated to the Emperor, as well as historic sites and items, associated with him.

The collection includes four thematic sections: “Biography of Peter I”, “Peter I’s Activity”, “Death of Peter I”, and “Memory of Peter I”. Materials are grouped in chronological order.

The material sources of the collection are Russian archives (State Archive of the Russian Federation, Russian State Historical Archive), central and regional libraries (Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian State Library, Central Naval Library; Arkhangelsk Regional Research Library, Belgorod State Universal Research Library, Vladimir Regional Universal Research Library, Don State Public Library, Moscow Regional State Research Library, National Library of Republic of Karelia, Omsk State Regional Research Library, Samara Regional Universal Research Library, Centralized Library System of Krasnogvardeysky District of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Mayakovsky Central City Public Library), higher education institutions (S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy, Military Educational and Scientific Centre of the Russian Navy “N. G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy”, Research Library of the Moscow State University, Research Library of the Russian Academy of Arts, Branch of RASL under the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts, St. Petersburg State University, Ural Federal University), museums, film studios (Alupka Palace and Park Museum-Reserve, Tobolsk State Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve, Children’s Postcard Museum, “Lenfilm” film studio) and private collections.