Evenings with Peter the Great

The historical novel "Evenings with Peter the Great" is published on the 100th anniversary of the birth of his author, the outstanding Russian writer Daniil Alexandrovich Granin (1919–2017) This is a alloy of documentary and artistry, where the author acts not only as an writer, fiction writer, but also a historian, researcher of the phenomenon of power and man in power. The novel reveals the inner world of the Russian autocrat at a turning point for Russia, the author explores Peter as a person, as a Tsar-Tsar, King-scientist, King-warrior, he builds a plot based on previously unknown details of the private life of the first Russian emperor, using excerpts from archival. documents. And it is no accident that several heroes of the novel are our contemporaries. They warmly argue about Peter and his reforms, clearly drawing parallels between the events of three hundred years ago and today. The book includes more than a hundred illustrations (portraits, paintings, engravings, geographical maps, museum exhibits), visually "reinforcing the artistic text and giving a more complete idea of ​​the described era