Peter I. Volume 3. Historians and contemporaries about Peter the Great and his era. Tolstoy A.

Contemporaries began to realize the greatness of Peter I during his lifetime and long before he was officially assigned the nickname “The Great”. There was no doubt on the scale of his personality and the fateful consequences of his deeds.

French aristocrat Duke de Saint-Simon, Danish Messenger Yust Yul, Breton nobleman Francois Giimo de Vilbua (aka Russian vice-admile Nikita Petrovich Wilboa)- All of them had the opportunity to personally know Peter I, and if the first of this list with the Russian king did not even communicate, but did not skimp on enthusiasm in his memoirs, then the latter was entrusted to become a chaff at the wedding of Peter and Catherine, but later he did not hesitate to give his story about The death of the emperor is the tone of the vile Pasquil.

Russian historians N.I. Kostomarov, S.M. Soloviev, V.O. Klyuchevsky, M.N. Pokrovsky studied the Petrine era for the most part according to the same documents, but sometimes they sometimes came to diametrically opposite conclusions.

readers of the third volume will receive a unique chance to familiarize themselves with the entire spectrum of opinions and compose their own.