Russia in the Age of Peter the Great Ecco Press this time involving businessmen

this time involving businessmen

eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam

her murdered lover

new to this edition

Russia in the Age of Peter the Great Ecco Press this time involving businessmenPeter the Great, often known as the Tsar Reformer, initiated a bold programme of modernisation and Westernisation that affected the lives of all Russia's subjects. He founded a new capital, St Petersburg, which became a symbol of cultural change, and a navy, which signalled Russia's emergence as a maritime power. At the same time he reinforced the old institutions of serfdom and autocracy. This magisterial book a history of Peter and the Russia he