Peter the Great: His Life and World

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0345298063 ISBN13: 9780345298065 Release Date: October 1981 Publisher: Random House Trade Length: 928 Pages Weight: 0.99 lbs. Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.2" PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - An "urgently readable" (Newsweek) biography of the captivating tsar who changed Russian history--from the New York Times bestselling author of Nicholas and Alexandra, The Romanovs, and Catherine the Great "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, crowned co-tsar at the age of ten. Robert K. Massie delves deep into his life, chronicling the pivotal events that shaped a boy into a legend--including his "incognito" travels in Europe, his unquenchable curiosity about Western ways, his obsession with the sea and establishment of the stupendous Russian nav