false 130363 15 "Enthralling...As fascinating as any novel and more so than most!"<br>THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW<br>Against 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. 2731382 book 1980 Peter the Great total:469|5:215|4:165|3:68|2:6|1:4| 469 2008 700 87 5 3 true false Sun Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 22:39:04 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 22:51:30 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Feb 28 06:23:28 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 07:15:59 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 06 16:09:41 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 16:10:00 -0700 2009
This book examines in consider...more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sun Oct 05 09:10:09 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 09:12:45 -0700 2008 3 Can one book capture the complexity of the people, the country and their first truly great leader who dragged the country kicking and screaming into the heart of European geopolitics?
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Things are heating up! Peter is about to kill his son!

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