Peter the Great: His Life and World is a 1980 biographical work written by Robert K. Massie. The book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
Summary This work in the epic style that chronicles the life of Peter the Great reveals the will of the young Tsar to create an efficient navy as well as his ambition to modernize Russia, notably by bringing the nobility into line of Modernity, from a military point of view, from morals and thought too, and building ex nihilo on the Russian Baltic shores a European capital Saint-Petersburg. This book is divided into 61 chapters divided into five major parts : "Old Muscovy", "The Great Embassy", "The Great Northern War", "On the European Stage", and "The New Russia".
First mixed reception of the award-winning book by some scholarly historians, with broad critics
Reviewing the book in the American Historical Review, James Cracraft criticized it for overlooking the main scholarly studies in English, while relying heavily on an 1884 biography by the American historian and diplomat, Eugene Schuyler.; Cracraft, while stating that he cannot recommend the book to scholars, concluded:
TV Adaptation It was adapted in a 1986 TV miniseries.
Translation The book Peter the Great was translated into French by Denise Meunier and published by Fayard in 1985Robert K. Massie, Pierre le Grand. Sa vie, son univers, Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1985, 863 pages for the scholarly paperback edition with Notes, Bibliography and Index. ISBN : 978-2213014371. Only 831 pages for the popular edition with an abridged appendix, limited to thanks (Remerciements).
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