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Peter the Great: His Life and World
by Robert K. Massie
934 pages
Random House
Published: 1980
‘Peter the Great: His Life and World‘ is Robert Massie’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Russia’s Peter I. Massie was a journalist and historian who also wrote best-selling biographies of Nicholas and Alexandra Romanov and Catherine the Great.
Peter the great best biography 2016
Massie died in 2019 at the age of ninety.
Peter the Great (1672 – 1725) is an irresistible and transformational figure in Russian history, responsible for modernizing his country’s culture and customs, launching a significant industrialization effort and significantly strengthening his country’s military posture.
He had more than a dozen children by two wives (after he divorced his first wife he had her confined to a convent) and proves to be a biographer’s dream. He was inquisitive, mercurial, contemplative, demanding and surprisingly forward-think