Peter The Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie

Peter The Great: His Life and World

The Romanovs #1

Robert K. Massie

909 pages first pub 1980 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative tense slow-paced

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A biography of Peter the Great. Despite his progressive and enlightened attitudes towards science and the state, Peter was also a barbarous feudal tsar with a personal love of torture. His character - volatile, restless and cruel - embodied the gr...

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