Genny S. reviewed on 1/21/2009 + 141 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 5

If you love Russian history, you will love this book. The author also wrote Nicholas and Alexandra and goes into great detail about the life and times of Peter the Great, and the Byzantine politics and the barbarity of Russia during the 16th and 17th centuries. It was Peter who made the first attempts to bring Russia into the civilized world of western Europe and England during this period. This is a very large book and it took me a week and a half reading it every night, but I loved it.

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