Peter the Great
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Peter the Great
49.99 €
Ah. N. Tolstoy began to write the novel “Peter the First” in 1929. The first decade of the eighteenth century is an amazing picture of an explosion of creativity, energy, enterprise. The old world is cracking and crumbling. Europe, waiting for the wrong thing, looks at the emerging Russia in amazement and fear. In his work, Tolstoy used a variety of sources: the research of historians, notes and letters of Peter’s contemporaries – Russians and foreigners, military reports and decrees of that time, diplomatic correspondence, judicial archives and literary monuments of the era, as well as folklore material, which vividly and organically fits into the artistic fabric of the novel, forming an inseparable whole with it.
The novel is dedicated to the turning point in the history of Russia and the fate of the first Russian emperor and great reformer. It covers the time from Peter’s childhood and youth to the beginning of his transformational activities, the first military campaigns, the victories of the Russian army over the Swedes and the foundation of St. Petersburg and ends on the capture of Narva by Russian troops. Tolstoy created a vast gallery of living, memorable images; with great artistic power he displayed the unrestrained energy and incredible scope of Peter’s activity, his irreconcilable struggle with the old Rus, personified by the Streltsy rebellion and schismatic movement; showed how the Russian state developed and strengthened in the internal struggle and wars for independence. “To understand the mystery of the Russian people, its greatness, it is necessary to know its past well and deeply: our history, its root knots, the tragic creative epochs in which the Russian character was tied up,” he said.
The book is illustrated by the master of book graphics, the famous artist Anatoly Zinovievich Itkin.
The novel is dedicated to the turning point in the history of Russia and the fate of the first Russian emperor and great reformer. It covers the time from Peter’s childhood and youth to the beginning of his transformational activities, the first military campaigns, the victories of the Russian army over the Swedes and the foundation of St. Petersburg and ends on the capture of Narva by Russian troops. Tolstoy created a vast gallery of living, memorable images; with great artistic power he displayed the unrestrained energy and incredible scope of Peter’s activity, his irreconcilable struggle with the old Rus, personified by the Streltsy rebellion and schismatic movement; showed how the Russian state developed and strengthened in the internal struggle and wars for independence. “To understand the mystery of the Russian people, its greatness, it is necessary to know its past well and deeply: our history, its root knots, the tragic creative epochs in which the Russian character was tied up,” he said.
The book is illustrated by the master of book graphics, the famous artist Anatoly Zinovievich Itkin.
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