Peter the Great: His Life and World - Robert K. Massie

Title: Peter the Great: His Life and World
Author: Robert K. Massie
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Format: Mass market paperback
Edition: Ninth printing, September 1988; first Ballantine Books mass market edition published February 1986
ISBN: 9780345336194
Condition: Second-hand. Fair. Covers show heavy creasing, rubbing and edge wear, with a tear and loss at the upper spine/front-cover corner and additional creasing to the rear cover. The pages and edges show pronounced age-related toning and spotting. The binding is intact. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Robert K. Massie’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography follows Peter the Great from his turbulent youth through his transformation of Russia, including his military reforms, creation of a navy, European travels and the building of St Petersburg.

A sweeping work of narrative history portraying Peter as an energetic, contradictory ruler whose reign reshaped Russia and its relationship with Europe.