Peter the Great, his life and world
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"Enthralling . . . As fascinating as any novel and more so than most." The New York Times Book ReviewThe Pulitzer Prize-Winning Bestseller by the author of DREADNOUGHT.Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, one of the most extraordinary rulers in history. Impetuous and stubborn, generous and cruel, tender and unforgiving, a man of enormous energy and complexity, Peter the Great is brought fully to life in this exceptional biography.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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9780345298065
9781483078397
9780307817235
9781483078397
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From the Book
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.
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