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Peter the Great by Stanley, Diane is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Peter the Great about?
<p>Peter the Great, crowned tsar of Russia at the age of ten, believed that whatever he wanted he should have - and the sooner the better. What he wanted most was to bring his beloved country into the modem world. He traveled to the West to learn European ways - the first tsar ever to leave Russia - disguised as a common soldier.</p><p>He explored the West with excitement and curiosity and returned home ready to undertake a series of momentous social reforms. And to satisfy his boyhood dream of a Russian naval port, he began to build, on a freezing swamp, a glittering new capital to be named St. Petersburg.</p><p>In this welcome reissue of Diane Stanley's acclaimed picturebook biography, her meticulously researched text and sumptuous illustrations capture the fabulous world of seventeenth - and eighteenth-century tsarist Russia and the greatness of its larger-than-life leader - a man of huge stature and tremendous spirit whose impatience and vision, insatiable curiosity and boundless energy transformed half a continent.</p> <p>A biography of the tsar who began the transformation of Russia into a modern state in the late seventeenth-early eighteenth centuries.
Who reads Peter the Great?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Stanley, Diane
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Co
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780688167080
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Memoir, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.87 / 5 (26 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14