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  • Paperback: 324 pages
  • Publisher: Yale University Press (March 11, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 030010300X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0300103007
  • Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 0.9 x 8.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #969,869 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 starsGood Introduction
By Bradley Helms on February 17, 2003
Format: Hardcover
Overall a very nice, concise account of the life of Peter the Great. A very good introduction to those who wish to learn about this period of Russian history but have little starting background. I did think the last chapter which focuses on monuments to Peter since his death was a little dry and could easily have been edited out without affecting the overall quality of the book
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Great book
By Russell D. Melling on April 29, 2008
Format: Paperback
The best single volume biograghy of Russia's Westernizing Tsar. If you don't want to spend weeks Reading Robert Massie's "Massive" tome, this is the book for you!
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2.0 out of 5 starsScholarly jargon
By Professor May on February 5, 2005
Format: Hardcover
This book is good for historians, no doubt, but probably not the the rest of the people, like me. I read paragraphs without knowing what I read, and it's hard to glean any interesting information. Consider, for example, this paragraph:

"In an attempt to recover Russia's prestige, gain a stronger bargaining position with the allies and ward off Turkish attacks on Ukraine, in 1695 Peter reopened hostilities ina campaign against the Turkist coastal fort of Azov at the mouth of the River Don. He dispatched two armies, the joint force of Boris Petrovich Sheremetev and the Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa to the Dnieper to delfect the Tartars from the mouth of the Don and a smaller unit consisting of the Preobrazhensky and Semenovsky guards and strel'tsy on river craft down the Don to Azov itself."

I understand it, but I am not excited by all this information. The description is just too dry for my taste. I am very interested in Peter the Great because I know he went around Europe, and even worked as a carpenter. I'll find another biography elsewhere.
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1.0 out of 5 starsNot as it was advertised.
By Tim C on October 4, 2013
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This showed up at my house as a former library book. I hate when I order a book and it shows as ex-library. I was able to remove the Myles without too much damage, but there was a big piece of the back dust jacket cut out. I emailed the seller weeks ago, but never heard back.
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