Peter the Great : His Life and World - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842121162 ISBN 13: 9781842121160

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson History

Synopsis

A barbarous, volatile feudal tsar with a taste for torture; a progressive and enlightened reformer of government and science; a statesman of vision and colossal significance: Peter the Great embodied the greatest strengths and weaknesses of Russia while being at the very forefront of her development. Robert K Massie's award-winning study remains the essential portrait of the man and his era.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"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. He lives in Irvington, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
• ISBN 10: 1842121162
• ISBN 13: 9781842121160
• Binding: Paperback