Title: The city and the Tsar; Peter the Great and the move to the west, 1648-1762.
Authors: Lamb, Harold, 1892-1962
Publisher: Doubleday,
Year: 1948
Subjects: Peter; Russia History; Russia History; Russia History
Contents: I. The two gates of Muscovy. Great master ; Dezhnev the hunter ; The freebooters of Yakutsk ; The tsar's plan and the bureau's performance ; Nikifor Chernigovsky's republic ; The young Natalia ; The first favorites ; Light from the West ; Alexis asks a blessing -- II. The young Westerners. Weakness of the throne ; Calling in of the Streltsi ; The ghosts of the Tartar Khans ; Journal of Nicholas Spathary ; What Father Gerbillon witnessed ; Opening of the Baraba Steppe ; Sophia's seat behind the two thrones ; The road to the Krim ; Suburb of the foreigners ; The fort and the boat ; Francois Lefort ; The storm on the frozen sea ; The ships go down to Azov ; Atlasov's sixty Cossacks --^