Peter the Great: His Life and World - Softcover

Book 1 of 4: The Romanovs Series

Massie, Robert K.

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Synopsis

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Massie brings to life of one of the greatest rulers in history, vividly evoking both the Russia of Peter's birth and the very different Russia his energy, genius, and ruthlessness shaped.

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"Enthralling...As fascinating as any novel and more so than most!"
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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.

About the Author

Robert K. Massie was born in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1929. He studied American history at Yale University and modern European history at Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes scholar. Peter the Great won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1981.

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