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If it doesn't, this would confirm a four star rating for the work as a whole.An accessible, yet detailed review of one of the great men of europeReviewed in the United Kingdom on February 13, 2014
Peter was great for many reasons. This biography is as wide, sweeping and impressive as Peter The Great himself. A barbarous, volatile feudal tsar with a taste for torture; a progressive and enlightened reformer of government and science; a statesman of vision and colossal significance: Peter the Great embodied the greatesAgainst the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, crowned at the age of 10. If you read two books on Peter the Great, let me know how the other one turns out (just kidding, there are probably other good books on Peter the Great, but none likely as well written as this one). Charles the XII of Sweden invades Russia; his army sustains itself partly by hanging little peasant children unless Mom reveals the family's stash of winter food (without which they will surely starve). The battle scenes are incredible: I read the Battle of Poltava like it was happening before me, like watching a football game with the best newscaster. Indeed this huge tome was so well written, compelling, suspenseful and dramatic at certain points, that it reads like a real page turner. You were considered a bitch if you ate with a fork, just for starters. In a sense, the flow of effect was circular: the West affected Peter, the Tsar had a powerful impact upon Russia, and Russia, modernized and emergent, had a new and greater influence on Europe. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. I really like the way he writes his books as they read like a history textbook and a novel meshed together. I read Robert Massie's Peter the Great before reading Catherine and I would strongly recommend reading the two books in that order.
I really like the way he writes his books as they read like a history textbook and a novel meshed together. For instance, he provides a lot of detail about the uniforms worn by.various armies in the book. Peter the Great: His Life and World (Modern Library) by Robert K. Massie (2012-09-18) That is also why change management is such a big thing for corporates. It's not only that the book is big; I'm a fast reader, and I would say it took me about four days not counting the lengthy breaks between reading sessions. From DC & Neil Gaiman, The Sandman arises only on Audible. Robert K. Massie won my heart with his book about Catherine the Great, so I definitely had to read the one about Peter as well. Peter brought many great things to his country and he did not try to take over his halfbrothers legacy, eventhough his half sister Sophia was power hungry and made an attempt on his life. Immaculately researched. 1842121162 If you complain about today, you should read about then.
But make sure you get the Tsar's royal title right; he may not defend the borders too well, but he will take your head off if he feels you disrespected him.
The descriptions are beyond parallel.
This can be observed even in the parlance of our lives in both the personal and professional arenas. Robert K. Massie was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and studied American history at Yale and European history at Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. Mr Massie demonstrates the intricacies of the confluence of culture, identity, ideas and technologies of Western Europe, The Baltic Countries, Ottoman Empire and Russia during the time of Peter’s reign. When I was reading it, I would think to myself, "I can actually “Peter the Great” is one of the best-written history books I’ve encountered. This can be observed even in the parlance of our lives in both the personal and professional arenas. About Peter the Great: His Life and World. The review of this Book prepared by seve
However, one day last week I ran into the library with four books that were in danger of being overdI have always been fascinated by Russian history and decided that it was finally time to check this book out of the library. However, I don't know as much about the period of Peter's life (1672-1725) as I did about Nicholas' (1868-1917) so some of the applause may be credited to my ignorance and credulousness, but I also think that Massie put more work into researching and writing this biography and that thirteen years, and several books, have made him a better writeHaving panned Massie's first book, Nicholas and Alexandria (1967), I have to congratulate him on this one, written thirteen years later: Peter the Great.
The old Muscovite state, isolated and introverted for centuries, would reach out to Europe and open itself to Europe. Again the author covers a lot of material related to Peter the Great and gives relevant information without going off topic. I learned a great deal as Peter the Great's reign was anything but dull.
From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Robert K. Massie--also available are Nicholas and Alexandra and The Romanovs Against 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. When the author gets into Peter's head through his dealings with his expectations for his son or his intimate, playful banter with his wife, his writing is really special.