Peter I. Volume 1. Tolstoy A.

The death of the young king Fedor Alekseevich could lead Russia to a repetition of the Time of Troubles. Although the Romanov dynasties did not threaten the suppresses, the supporters of the two younger brothers of the deceased almost unleashed the civil war, but in the end they came to a not -free compromise, in which Ivan V and Peter I occupied the throne at the same time, and their older sister Sophia began to rule for them.

This was the prologue of the era that Russia will complete the great power, and Peter - the emperor. Readers of the first volume proceed to the young king from the red porch of the Granovite Chamber, where many of his loved ones were killed by the Streletsky rebellion of 1682, until the morning of the Streletsky execution in 1698...

the reissue of the unfinished novel of the outstanding Russian and Soviet writer a. Tolstoy is accompanied by an appeal to readers D.A. Medvedev - Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation and the scientific preface by N.I. Pavlenko is a doctor of historical sciences and, probably, the best biographer of Peter I. The text of the novel is accompanied by thematic illustrations of the great artist I.Ya. Bilibina.