Peter
Picart

In 1703-1704 he led the Marching engraving workshop, after which until his death he worked in St. Petersburg...

...was the stepson of famous in Holland fortesta adriana Schonebeck, or Shkhonebek, as it is called in Russia. In the book "Engraving of Peter's time" Maria Andreevna Alekseeva reports interesting data about it:

"With Russia, as the number is not taken into account until now, documents have Schonebeck was a long-standing relationship.

Before marriage 1 young engraver went there with his father. Then... he was in Moscow in 1696—the beginning of 1697, There were children of his wife and himself he was received with "great pretstati" what we learn from his petition 1697

...Caught in 1687 to early 1698, along with Peter in Amsterdam, Schoonebeek, probably helped the king...

Schoonebeek has brought to his apartment at the shipyard of the East India company copper plate and materials for engraving and with him performed the etching "Allegory of the victory over the Turks"" ).

A Dutch researcher Join Driessen adds:

"In Amsterdam, Peter was invited Shkhonebek to move to Moscow and to enter the king's service...

Adrian Schoonebeek (C. 1657 – 1714 approx. 2), pupil of Romain de Hooghe, closes his prosperous shop of prints on the Kalverstraat... and goes to Moscow to work at the court" ).

In the capital, under the Armory, gifted and energetic, fast worker and hard-working Dutchman set up a workshop for the manufacture and printing of the secular prints. Four years later he was called to Moscow by Peter Pikart, up to that time worked in the Amsterdam workshop of his stepfather.

(From the book by Alexander Sarymov "Prehistory of St. Petersburg. 1703")