Peter the Great: His Life and World [Massie]

Product Description

Peter the Great: His Life and World. Robert Massie. NY: Knopf, 1980. 1st edition. BOMC. 909 pages. Photos and maps, map endpapers. Some color illustrations. Hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. Text good condition (few pages creased) jacket worn, chipped, couple of tape repairs, 2" piece missing from bottom spine. No markings or names.  

Peter I (The Great) and his life's story is one that  could only originate from a semi-barbaric and Western influenced, Russia, especially during the 17th-18thc.  Massie portrays Peter the Tsar in extraordinary detail, the 10 year-old who was crowned ruler of Russia

. He writes about Peter's “incognito” travels in Europe, his ravenous curiosity about the West, his fascination with the sea and the navy, which he forged along with an unsurpassable army, and his arm-twisting (among other acts) transformation of Russia. Massie also wrote, together with his then-wife Suzanne, the definitive biography of Nicholas and Alexandra. He has also written The Romanovs: The Final Chapter and Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman.