This painting is entitled: "Peter the Great at the Tvertsa lock gate"

1723

·       Christian von Wolf, founder of the language of German philosophy, was accused of atheism and expelled from Prussia under the threat of hanging. 

·       Christian Ludwig Gersten, based on the work of Leibniz, created an arithmetic machine that allowed numbers to be multiplied.

·       In the Urals, the construction of the state-owned metallurgical plant, which gave rise to the city of Yekaterinburg, begins

Russia's trade and state benefits prompted Peter to make every possible effort to study Russian geography and improve communications.

Vyshny Volochok.

Peter is 51 years old.

Returning from the Persian campaign, the Tsar stops to inspect the lock gate of the Vyshny Volochok Canal, which was the first man-made waterway in Russian history and the largest in Europe at the time.

Prince Gagarin undertook the first works on the Vyshny Volochok Canal,, but it soon became clogged. Then the water system was rebuilt by the Novgorod merchant Mikhail Serdyukov, who carried out all the necessary work at his own expense. In return, he asked Peter for the right to duty-free income from his production for 15 years. For 180 years, the Vyshny Volochok Canal became the main transport artery linking St. Petersburg with the central part of the country.

By Peter's decree the Ladoga Canal was built; the building of the road from St. Petersburg to Moscow began; maps of Russia were made; the seas were described; geographers were sent to Kamchatka and an expedition to the Bering Straight was prepared, whose purpose was to find out whether Asia was connected with America.

This is a digital copy of "Peter the Great at the Tvertsa lock gate" painted by the artist Mikhail Bocharov for the exhibition of 1872.

The original is stored in the collection of the State Russian Museum.