num_pages: 505
description: "Ian Grey's Peter the Great reads like a novel . . ."- Louis FischerThe first modern Russian was Peter the Great. In this enthralling biography of that remarkable ruler, award-winning historian Ian Grey paints an illuminating portrait - clear, objective, and without malice or sentimentality. Here we have, life-size, not only the great czar, but the man who fell in love with a peasant girl and made her his empress; the father who was betrayed by his son; the giant who carried all his life the scars of a childhood terror; the soldier, sailor, laborer, innovator, and architect of a nation.
language: English
title: Peter The Great, Emperor of All Russia
titlecomplete: Peter The Great, Emperor of All Russia
characters: Peter the Great
genres: Historical, Biography, Nonfiction, Russia, History
ratings_count: 129
publisher: Lippincott