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This superbly told story brings to life one of the very most exceptional rulers--and men--in all of history and conveys the dilemma of his life and world. The Russia of Peter's delivery was very different from the Russia his energy, genius, and ruthlessness designed. Crowned co-Tsar as a kid of ten, after witnessing bloody uprisings in the roadways of Moscow, he would grow up propelled by an unquenchable attention, everywhere looking, requesting, tinkering, and learning, terminated by American ideas. We see Peter in his 20s journeying "incognito" with his ambassadors to the courts of Europe; as the victorious soldier proclaimed Emperor; as the easy workman at his forge; and since the visionary statesman who single-handedly created a formidable world ability. Impetuous and tenacious, bawdy and stern, relentless in his perseverance, he was with the capacity of the best generosity and the best cruelty.
