The picture was painted for the 350th anniversary of the birth of Peter the Great. This is a genre hunting scene of that time.
The transformations of Peter the Great changed the traditional structure of Russian life. The active perception of Western European culture, the change in the forms of court life, the transfer of the capital to St. Petersburg gradually affected the forms of imperial hunting and its organization. Imperial hunting in Russia developed in the general traditions of European court hunting.
The transformations of Peter the Great changed the traditional structure of Russian life. The active perception of Western European culture, the change in the forms of court life, the transfer of the capital to St. Petersburg gradually affected the forms of imperial hunting and its organization. Imperial hunting in Russia developed in the general traditions of European court hunting.