Peter the Great: His Life and World

• Book ID: 126199459
• Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 662 KB
• Category: Standards
• ISBN: 0307817237

✦ Synopsis

1981

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Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great. He brought Russia from the darkness of its own Middle Ages into the Enlightenment and transformed it into the power that has its legacy in the Russia of our own century.Review"Enthralling...As fascinating as any novel and more so than most!"
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW“Enthralling . . . as fascinating as any novel and more so than most.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Urgently readable . . . the work of a master of narrative history.”—Newsweek
“Written in a style that combines vigor, clarity, and sensitivity . . . should be the envy of historians and novelists alike.”—Chicago Sun-Times

“Fascinating . . . an absorbing book.”—The Plain Dealer

“Exceptional.”—The New Yorker

✦ Subjects

Биографии и Мемуары