35+ Peter The Great: His Life And World Images. Old muscovy, the great embassy, the great northern war. The swedish empire at the beginning of the great northern war.

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We see peter in his twenties traveling incognito with his ambassadors to the courts of europe; Looking down on moscow from this high ridge, he saw at his feet the most rich and beautiful city in the world. hundreds of golden domes topped by a forest of golden. Impetuous and stubborn, generous and cruel, a man of enormous energy and complexity, peter the great is brought fully to life.

We see peter in his twenties traveling incognito with his ambassadors to the courts of europe;

Peter overcame opposition from the country's medieval aristocracy and initiated a series of changes that affected all areas of russian life. Not only does massie take us through every facet of peter's life, his tortured family background, his foreign friends and mistresses; The swedish empire at the beginning of the great northern war. Peter the great begins dragging the boyars into more more european dress and views.