History of Russia: Veliky Novgorod to host the exhibition "How Tsar Peter Fell in Love with the Sea"

The Novgorod State Integrated Museum-Reserve is hosting the exhibition "How Tsar Peter Fell in Love with the Sea", which will run until September 20, 2020.

In the epoch of Peter I, the naval business was an active driving force that promoted the development of various industries, cartography, engraving and book publishing, creation of a professional education system and active construction of shipyards and cities. It all became possible thanks to Peter I's interest in sailing. The tsar admitted that this passion appeared when he found an English bot in the shed of the Linen Yard in Izmailovo royal estate. Now, it is a branch of the Moscow State Integrated Museum-Reserve.

Devoted to the sea, Peter I mastered many professions - from ships designing to conducting naval combat. Under the name of Peter Mikhailov, the tsar served in the Admiralty as a simple shipmaster. He also was an admiral in the Navy. The Russian Naval forces created by him could resist the Navy of the Swedish Empire - one of the greatest Naval powers of the turn of the XVII-XVIII centuries. Peter I was proclaimed emperor after Russian victory over Sweden in the Great Northern War.

The exhibition presents unique museum items and documents: rare naval and shipbuilding books of Peter the Great's time, navigation equipment, important notes about naval architecture by Peter I, ship drawings, as well as applied art objects of the XVII– XVIII centuries.