Category: Peter the Great

Russia in North America

Post author By Jennifer Antill
Post date January 2, 2023
Categories In a novel, Decembrists, Peter the Great, Russian history
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At least one scene in my novel, Small Acts of Kindness, a tale of the first Russian revolution, takes place in the offices of the Russian American Company. One of the principle characters, the radical Kondraty Ryleev, was office manager at the company in the months before the Decembrist uprising in 1825. The large building, […]

War games

Post author By Jenny Antill
Post date February 7, 2022
Categories In Moscow, Peter the Great, Russian army
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The Russian army is rightly preoccupying people at present. When preparing for the first live talk I have given for quite a long time, I was trying to find a better image to illustrate Peter the Great’s ‘play regiments’. I came across this bright 17th century woodcut, the illustration from a book. I think the figure […]

Shifting Stones

I often marvel at how many buildings in the past were constructed without the help of machinery, and the same applies to moving large rocks across the countryside. We recently watched a programme about how the great bluestones that form part of the stone circles at Stonehenge actually came from a quarry in Wales some […]

Peter the Great at the Queen’s Gallery

Post author By Jenny Antill
Post date November 18, 2018
Categories In art, Exhibitions, Peter the Great
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Portrait of Peter the Great of Russia by Sir Godfrey Kneller. 1698. This picture of Peter the Great is one of many interesting works that can be seen at the exhibition Russia, Royalty and the Romanovs, currently running at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace. The picture features in my talk ‘The Bronze Horseman‘ which tells […]