About the first Russian Emperor Peter I

Peter I Alekseevich, nicknamed the Great (1672 - 1725) - the last Tsar of All Russia (since 1682) and the first Emperor of All Russia (since 1721).
Peter I was born on May 30, 1672, was the 14th child of Alexei Mikhailovich, the second Russian tsar from the Romanov dynasty (1645 - 1676). Mother - Tsarina Natalya Kirillovna, nee Naryshkina (1651-1694), the second wife of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. The collage above shows their portraits.
In the bottom row, from left to right, there are portraits of the first wife of Peter I - Evdokia Lopukhina, and the second, "field wife" - Queen Catherine I.
The view of the sea town is not given by chance - this town of Perast, on the Adriatic, in the old days was the center of shipbuilding and navigation; here Peter sent the sons of the boyars to learn navigation