Peter the Great: The Tsar Who Remade Russia
Peter the Great: The Tsar Who Remade Russia
In the autumn of 1697, a giant of a man — six feet seven inches tall, with restless dark eyes and hands already thickening with calluses — bent over a half-finished ship’s hull in a Dutch yard at Zaandam and swung a hammer like any other apprentice carpenter. His name, as far as his coworkers knew, was Peter...