Peter the Great through British Eyes: Perceptions and Representations of the Tsar since 1698

by Anthony Cross

Peter the Great's visit to England in January 1698 has been called "the most picturesque episode in the history of Anglo-Russian relations." This book shows how the British have responded to Peter during the past three centuries. It makes use of an extensive range of printed sources to show the reactions to his visit, his personality and his reign by contemporaries and by succeeding generations of journalists, biographers, poets and dramatists, as well as by painters and engravers.

Genres: Russia, History, 18th Century

208 pages, Hardcover

First published November 30, 2000

About the author

British academic who taught at Leeds, the University of East Anglia and was Professor of Slavonic at Cambridge.

Anthony Cross founded the study group on Eighteenth-Century Russia and this was at the centre of his research interests.