"Enthralling...As fascinating as any novel and more so than most!"<br>THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW<br>Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great. He brought Russia from the darkness of its own Middle Ages into the Enlightenment and transformed it into the power that has its legacy in the Russia of our own century.<br>