This is the definitive short biography of Russia's dramatic, appealing, and unconventional Tsar Peter the Great. The book provides new insights into Peter's enigmatic character, his remarkable fantasy
In this reprint from 2008, the late Hughes, who was professor of history at the U. of London, UK, relates the history of the Romanovs in Russia from 1613 to the fall of the dynasty in 1917. She descri
Relying on newly available sources, a professor of Russian history at the University of London recounts the history of the Russia of Peter the Great and reconsiders the tsar's legacy as a modernizer a
