# Portrait of Peter the Great on his Death-Bed [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [NIKITIN, Ivan Nikitich]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 78 x 66 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Peter the Great on his Death-Bed 1725 Oil on canvas, 78 x 66 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Peter I the Great \(Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov\) \(1672-1725\) ruled Russia and later the Russian Empire from 1682 until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his weak and sickly half-brother, Ivan V. Peter the Great carried out a policy of Westernization and expansion that transformed the Tsardom of Russia into the 3-billion acre Russian Empire, a major European power. ## Related artworks - [Portrait of Grand Duchess Yelizaveta Petrovna as a Child]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()