Peter the Great Part 2 of 2 Author:Robert K. Massie "Enthralling . . . As fascinating as any novel and more so than most." The New York Times Book Review — The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Bestseller by the author of DREADNOUGHT. — Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, one of the most extraordinary rulers i... more »n history. Impetuous and stubborn, generous and cruel, tender and unforgiving, a man of enormous energy and complexity, Peter the Great is brought fully to life in this exceptional biography.« less