Peter the Great
"Enthralling...As fascinating as any novel and more so than most!"THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWAgainst the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great. He brought Russia from the darkness of its own Middle Ages into...
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"Enthralling...As fascinating as any novel and more so than most!"THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWAgainst the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great. He brought Russia from the darkness of its own Middle Ages into the Enlightenment and transformed it into the power that has its legacy in the Russia of our own century.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780345336194 (0345336194)
Publish date: January 12th 1986
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 934
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Russia,
Biography Memoir,
European History,
World History,
18th Century
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