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Author : Robert Nisbet Bain
Release : 1900
Genre : Russia
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Book Synopsis The Daughter of Peter the Great by : Robert Nisbet Bain
Download or read book The Daughter of Peter the Great written by Robert Nisbet Bain. This book was released on 1900. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diane Stanley
Release : 1999-08-25
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Synopsis Peter the Great by : Diane Stanley
Download or read book Peter the Great written by Diane Stanley. This book was released on 1999-08-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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. 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.
Author : Robert Nisbet Bain
Release : 1899
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Book Synopsis Elizabeth Petrovna, Empress of Russia, Daughter of Peter the Great by : Robert Nisbet Bain
Download or read book Elizabeth Petrovna, Empress of Russia, Daughter of Peter the Great written by Robert Nisbet Bain. This book was released on 1899. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James CRACRAFT
Release : 2009-06-30
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Revolution of Peter the Great by : James CRACRAFT
Download or read book The Revolution of Peter the Great written by James CRACRAFT. This book was released on 2009-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books chronicle the remarkable life of Russian tsar Peter the Great, but none analyze how his famous reforms actually took root and spread in Russia. By century's end, Russia was poised to play a critical role in the Napoleonic wars and boasted an elite culture about to burst into its golden age. In The Revolution of Peter the Great, James Cracraft offers a brilliant new interpretation of this pivotal era.
Author : Tamara Talbot Rice
Release : 1970
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Book Synopsis Elizabeth, Empress of Russia by : Tamara Talbot Rice
Download or read book Elizabeth, Empress of Russia written by Tamara Talbot Rice. This book was released on 1970. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1709, the illegitimate daughter of Peter the Great and a woman of Livonian yeoman stock, Elizabeth was the only one of the Tsar's many children to survive to maturity. She lived through the reigns of four monarchs after her father's death, before seizing the throne in 1741 at the age of thirty-two. Faced with governing a country made unstable by frequent changes of ruler and caught up in a web of international politics, she evolved a policy that set Russia on the road to becoming a major Western power.--From book jacket.
