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Index
Cover
Welcome Page
Dedication
Maps
Part 1: Old Muscovy
Chapter 1: Old Muscovy
Chapter 2: Peter’s Childhood
Chapter 3: “A Maiden of Great Intelligence”
Chapter 4: The Revolt of the Streltsy
Chapter 5: The Great Schism
Chapter 6: Peter’s Games
Chapter 7: The Regency of Sophia
Chapter 8: Sophia Overthrown
Chapter 9: Gordon, Lefort and the Jolly Company
Chapter 10: Archangel
Chapter 11: Azov
Part 2: The Great Embassy
Chapter 12: The Great Embassy to Western Europe
Chapter 13: “It Is Impossible to Describe Him”
Chapter 14: Peter in Holland
Chapter 15: The Prince of Orange
Chapter 16: Peter in England
Chapter 17: Leopold and Augustus
Chapter 18: “These Things Are in Your Way”
Chapter 19: Fire and Knout
Chapter 20: Among Friends
Chapter 21: Voronezh and the Southern Fleet
Part 3: The Great Northern War
Chapter 22: Mistress of the North
Chapter 23: Let the Cannon Decide
Chapter 24: Charles XII
Chapter 25: Narva
Chapter 26: “We Must Not Lose Our Heads”
Chapter 27: The Founding of St. Petersburg
Chapter 28: Menshikov and Catherine
Chapter 29: The Hand of the Autocrat
Chapter 30: Polish Quagmire
Chapter 31: Charles in Saxony
Chapter 32: The Great Road to Moscow
Chapter 33: Golovchin and Lesnaya
Chapter 34: Mazeppa
Chapter 35: The Worst Winter Within Memory
Chapter 36: The Gathering of Forces
Chapter 37: Poltava
Chapter 38: Surrender by the River
Chapter 39: The Fruits of Poltava
Part 4: On the European Stage
Chapter 40: The Sultan’s World
Chapter 41: Liberator of the Balkan Christians
Chapter 42: Fifty Blows on the Pruth
Chapter 43: The German Campaign and Frederick William
Chapter 44: The Coast of Finland
Chapter 45: The Kalabalik
Chapter 46: Venice of the North
Chapter 47: An Ambassador Reports
Chapter 48: The Second Journey West
Chapter 49: “The King Is a Mighty Man…”
Chapter 50: A Visitor in Paris
Chapter 51: The Education of an Heir
Chapter 52: A Paternal Ultimatum
Chapter 53: Flight of the Tsarevich
Chapter 54: The Future on Trial
Chapter 55: Charles’ Last Offensive
Chapter 56: King George Enters the Baltic
Chapter 57: Victory
Part 5: The New Russia
Chapter 58: In the Service of the State
Chapter 59: Commerce by Decree
Chapter 60: Supreme Under God
Chapter 61: The Emperor in St. Petersburg
Chapter 62: Along the Caspian
Chapter 63: Twilight
Epilogue
Preview
Illustrations
Genealogy of the Romanov Dynasty, 1613–1917
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Notes
Index
About this Book
Reviews
Also by this Author
About the Author
An Invitation from the Publisher
Copyright
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