Peter the First

"Peter First" of Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy is a great historical epos, recognized by the top of the Russian historical prose, a monumental plot about the birth of the New Russia and the cruel struggle for its future. On the background of large-scale historical events—from harsh shooter rebellions, the intrigue of the royal Sophia and Azov's trips to the great embassy in Europe, the construction of St. Petersburg and the bloody North War—the fate of the whole nation is revealed. Tolstoy rebuilds the epochal shift, when a new fleet was thrown into the fire of wars, the heavier reforms and deprivations, an empire was built and a new society was born, and the king himself placed the way through the resistance of the fighting, the rebellion and his own personal tragedies. With amazing painting, linguistic wealth and profound historianism, Alexey Tolstoy shows the spirit of the breakthrough era, where Asian ancient and European progress, fanaticism and continuous state will face. ** About what the book in three words:** Reforms, Empire, Will. **Who to read:** Lovers of large-scale historical classics, fans of deep epochs about great rulers and breakthrough epochs, as well as everyone who wants to get immersed in the masterpiece of the Russian prose of the twentieth century.