Peter the Great. Volume 2

On the pages of the novel by A. N. Tolstoy, the era of the reign of Peter the Great comes to life. The plot is based on real historical events - from the death of Tsar Fedor Alekseevich to the capture of Narva by the Russian troops - the victory and the climax of the novel, the Azov campaigns, the Streletsky riot. Grand -like changes in the country break and change the fate of various people. The history of the lives of historical personalities, such as Princess Sophia, Menshikov, Vasily Golitsyn and many others, is woven into the plot of the narrative. The ordinary people who turned out to be participants in historical transformations in Russia are also shown brightly, colorfully in the novel. It is they who express a popular opinion about the policy of the king, his reforms. But the central figure, according to the author himself, is the figure of Peter. The novel is written so excitingly, reliably that it is read in one breath