Peter the Great, his life and world

Old Muscovy

Peter's childhood

"A maiden of great intelligence"

The revolt of the Streltsy

The great schism

Peter's games

The regency of Sophia

Sophia overthrown

Gordon, Lefort and the jolly company

Archangel

Azov

The great embassy to Western Europe

"It is impossible to describe him"

Peter in Holland

The Prince of Orange

Peter in England

Leopold and Augustus

"These things are in your way"

Fire and knout

Among friends

Voronezh and the southern fleet

Mistress of the north

Let the cannon decide

Charles XII

Narva

"We must not lose our heads"

The founding of St. Petersburg

Menshikov and Catherine

The hand of the autocrat

Polish quagmire

Charles in Saxony

The great road to Moscow

Golovchin and Lesnaya

Mazeppa

The worst winter within memory

The gathering of forces

Poltava

Surrender by the river

The fruits of Poltava

The sultan's world

Liberator of the Balkan Christians

Fifty blows on the Pruth

The German campaign and Frederick William

The coast of Finland

The Kalabalik

Venice of the north

An ambassador reports

The second journey west

"The king is a mighty man ..."

A visitor in Paris

The education of an heir

A paternal ultimatum

Flight of the Tsarevich

The future on trial

Charles' last offensive

King George enters the Baltic

Victory

In the service of the state

Commerce by decree

Supreme under God

The emperor in St. Petersburg

Along the Caspian

Twlight

Epilogue

Genealogy of the Romanov dynasty, 1613-1917.