Peter I. Volume 2. Tolstoy A.

The first Petrine reforms prepared the greatness of Russia, but only military victories could build it among the great powers of Europe. Cross the swords with Sweden - one of the advanced states of that time - the Russian king decided only to enlist the support of the allies: Denmark and Saxony, whose ruler was both the Polish king. However, very soon it became clear that the only faithful allies of Russia, as in all other times, are its army and fleet...

readers of the second volume will be able to go a difficult path with Peter I, his friends, associates And Russian soldiers according to the battlefields of the first period of the Great Northern War, through the defeat near Narva in 1700 to the capture of Narva in 1704.

The text of the novel is accompanied by the thematic illustrations of the great artist I.Ya. Bilibina.