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Original Title:	Пётр Первый
ISBN:	1410225097 (ISBN13: 9781410225092)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Сталинская премия for Художественная проза (первая степень) (1940)

Peter the First

Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Paperback | Pages: 776 pages

Rating: 4.17 | 2099 Users | 32 Reviews

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Title	:	Peter the First
Author	:	Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 776 pages
Published	:	October 1st 2005 by University Press of the Pacific (first published 1944)
Categories	:	Classics. History. Cultural. Russia. Literature. Russian Literature. Historical

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Here, for the first time, in its final form and in a new translation, is the epic Russian novel which has sold in its native country over two million copies. Alexey Tolstoy (who was not related to the author of War and Peace) began to study the character of his hero, Peter the First, in 1917. When he died almost thirty years later, Tolstoy was still working on his masterpiece, this huge historical canvas which gives brilliant life and meaning to a crucial period in Russian history. Tolstoy reanimates the past by a succession of character creations which range from the serf, Ivan Brodkin, to Peter's sinister and opportunistic favorite, Alexander Menshikoff; from the old Boyars shorn of their beards and their prerogatives to the foreign captains of the new Russian navy. Here in these pages are the beautiful Anna Mons, Peter's first mistress; his wife Eudoxia, whom he never loved; and the peasant girl who eventually was to be crowned Empress Catherine the First. We see these men and women moving across a tapestry of battles abroad, and amid the dark, opulent luxury of the great families and the Imperial Court. In Tolstoy's moving crowded pages we see the emergence of Russia, thrust forward by Peter's inexorable will, from a backward medieval state to her final position as one of the great powers of Europe. Here are magnificent portraits, the fruits of years of historical research, of Peter's principal opponents: August, Elector of Saxony, indefatigable in his amusements, and King Charles XII of Sweden, a great military genius, flawed by passion and indulgence. But the true hero of Tolstoy's epic is Peter himself. We see him grow to be a man---awkward, suspicious, prone to spasms of cowardice, but always driving, sometimes provoked almost to madness, to free his country from the chains of backwardness and superstition to take her place as an equal among the nations of the west. And in the last analysis it is this greatness and originality of character in its hero which gives the stamp of greatness to the book itself. Alexey Tolstoy was born in 1883. In 1918 he published his first full length work, Nikita's Childhood. In 1919 he fled from the Bolshevik government and settled in Paris. In 1922 he asked for and received permission to return home. For the next twenty-four years he lived in Russia, until his death in 1946.

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This book is awesome - and unlike "the other" Tolstoi, not much attention was given this writer's book's in our lit study curriculum. It is a truly amazing account of social and personal change. Personal detail - I remember being seriously behind on the lit review for my high school graduation exams, and then college essay exam studies because of being totally absorbed by this book. My college essay exam was based on Tolstoy's book, which happened to be the most obscure subject matter of the 4

"A herbata, a kawa? A kartofla - tfu, niech będzie przeklęta Antychrystowa pokusa - kartofla! Wszystko to zielsko zza morza, a handlują nim u nas lutrzy i katolicy... Kto pije herbatę - ten heretyk... kto pije kawę, tego dusza w okowach... Tak, tfu - zdechnę raczej, a nie wezmę tego do swego sklepu..."Po "Piotra Pierwszego" sięgnęłam po raz pierwszy przy okazji zgłębiania historii Rosji, żeby spojrzeć na tę przełomową epokę z trochę innej perspektywy niż tylko opracowań historycznych. Aleksy

This is an absolutely fabulous historical novel (unfinished alas) by a member of both the Tolstoy and Turgenev families. He shows throughout the novel flashes of the same brilliance of his more famous relatives.The last third of Peter the Great's life is not covered in this book which is a tremendous pity.

Tolstoy's epic covers Peter's early life and rise to power prior to the Battle of Narva,and is rife with drama and history. While Tolstoy leaves out some details of Peter's life, he makes up for it with a rich cast of characters, places, and historical events that shaped modern Russia. Not a well known book in the West, but an excellent example of Russian historical fiction from the Russian perspective.

Очень понравилась книга. Долго читала, но жалко, что нет продолжения. Не хотелось расставаться с героями! Теперь хочу еще почитать что-нибудь про Петра первого и его время.

Virtuosic writing.

Исторический роман.просто и со вкусом.