Peter the First

Creativity Alexei Nikolaevich Tolstoy Truly multifaceted: Master of science fiction prose, the creator of all the beloved Tales" Golden Key, ", author of the epic" walking on the flour and numerous stories, stories and plays. The key, unifying the diversity of the plots, in the work of Tolstoy was the topic of Russia. Reflections on its purpose will penetrate and novel "Peter First" is the best sample of the genre of historical novel in Soviet literature. Tolstoy carefully studied documentary sources, but said that the historical romance cannot be written in the form of the chronic. In the center of the novel - the image of Peter I, the ruler of a huge country, which has a strong and persistent character and achieves the execution of its decisions