Robert K. Massie
Author
Physical Desc
909 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), genealogical tables, maps, portraits. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, Robert K. Massie unfolds the extraordinary story of Peter the Great. A volatile feudal tsar with a taste for barbaric torture; a progressive and enlightened reformer of government and science; a statesman of vision who recreated his country's army and navy and founded St Petersburg as his imperial capital: Peter the Great embodied the greatest strengths and weaknesses...