Russian Academy of Sciences
The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such as libraries, publishing units, and hospitals.
Russian Academy of Sciences
The building of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg on Universitetskaya Embankment
Portrait of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Original headquarters of the Imperial Academy of Sciences – the Kunstkamera in Saint Petersburg
Peter I, was Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia, known as Peter the Great, from 1721 until his death in 1725. He reigned jointly with his half-brother Ivan V until 1696. From this year, Peter was an absolute monarch, an autocrat who remained the ultimate authority and organized a well-ordered police state.
1717 portrait
Peter as a child
Double throne in Kremlin Armoury. A large hole was cut in the back of the dual-seated throne used by Ivan and Peter. Sophia would sit behind the throne and listen as Peter conversed with nobles, while feeding him information and giving him responses to questions and problems
Peter's ship, rigged with a sail and a mast with the help of Dutch carpenters
