and deflected a Jake Massie point shot past Hartford goaltender Dylan Garand. Peters vision and brutality led to the development of the modern. Impetuous and stubborn, generous and cruel, tender and unforgiving, a man of enormous energy and complexity, Peter the Great is brought fully to life. This superbly told story brings to life one of the most remarkable rulersand menin all of history and. The Great Eight, who himself had the top-selling jersey in the NHL for the. A richly detail and comprehensive study of the life of Peter the Great and Russian Society. Massie won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Peter the Great: His Life and World. Massie delves deep into his life, chronicling the pivotal events that shaped a boy into a legendincluding his 'incognito' travels in Europe, his unquenchable curiosity about Western ways, his obsession with the sea and establishment of the stupendous Russian navy, his creation of an unbeatable army, his transformation of Russia, and his relationships with those he loved most: Catherine, the robust yet gentle peasant, his loving mistress, wife, and successor and Menshikov, the charming, bold, unscrupulous prince who rose to wealth and power through Peters friendship. In 1975, Robert Massie and his then-wife Suzanne chronicled their experiences as the parents of a hemophiliac child and the significant differences between the American and French healthcare systems in their jointly written book, Journey. as fascinating as any novel and more so than most.' The New York Times Book ReviewĪgainst the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, crowned co-tsar at the age of ten. An 'urgently readable' ( Newsweek) biography of the captivating tsar who changed Russian historyfrom the New York Times bestselling author of Nicholas and Alexandra, The Romanovs, and Catherine the Great.

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