"Put feet firmly by the sea …" The problem of imperial ambitions of Peter the Great and its figurative embodiment in fireworks of the first quarter of XVIII century

The article deals with the imperial images in fireworks in the first quarter of XVIII century, the naval strategy of Peter the Great and its evaluation by A.S. Pushkin and N.M. Karamzin. For the first time using the system-structural method the historiographical memory which Peter the Great formed about himself in marine images of fireworks, and the way it was treated by the first historians during the reign of Peter the Great in the XIX century have been analysed.