num_pages: 909
description: "Enthralling . . . As fascinating as any novel and more so than most." The New York Times Book ReviewThe Pulitzer Prize-Winning Bestseller by the author of DREADNOUGHT.Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, one of the most extraordinary rulers in history. Impetuous and stubborn, generous and cruel, tender and unforgiving, a man of enormous energy and complexity, Peter the Great is brought fully to life in this exceptional biography.From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: Peter the Great
titlecomplete: Peter the Great
characters: Peter the Great, William of Orange, Louis XIV of France
genres: Historical, Biography, Politics, European History, Nonfiction, World History, Biography Memoir, Russian History, Russia, History
ratings_count: 21719
places: Russia
series: The Romanovs
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Autobiography/BiographyHardcover (1981) & (Paperback)
publisher: Random House Value Publishing