Peter the Great
$72.51
- Paperback
1056 pages
- Release Date
2 August 2022
Summary
The Pulitzer prizewinning biography of Peter the Great, the ruler who brought Russia from darkness into light.
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; Peter the Great embodied the greatest strengths and weaknesses of Russia while b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781801102773 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1801102775 |
| Author: | Robert K. Massie |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Apollo |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1056 |
| Release Date: | 2 August 2022 |
| Weight: | 700g |
| Dimensions: | 58mm x 130mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Great Lives |
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Critics Review
Enthralling. As fascinating as a novel and more so than most * New York Times *
Urgently readable… The work of a master of narrative history’ * Newsweek *
Exceptional * New Yorker *
Robert K. Massie
Robert K. Massie was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and studied American history at Yale and European history at Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He was president of the Authors Guild from 1987 to 1991. His books include Nicholas and Alexandra; The Romanovs: The Final Chapter; Dreadnought; Castles of Steel; and Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman.
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