Peter the Great. [electronic resource] Edited by L. Jay Oliva.

"Bibliographical note": p. 178.

Part 1. Peter the Great looks at the world. The journal of Peter the Great -- Petrine decrees -- Peter and his family -- Peter and his correspondents -- Part 2. The official view -- The view from inside the empire -- The view from Europe -- Part 3. Founder and father of his empire / Voltaire -- Tears and corpses / Karamzin -- The great man who civilized us / Chaadayev -- The miracle of Peter the Great / Belinsky -- Immense spiritual evil / Aksakov -- The artisan-tsar / Klyuchevsky -- In advance of his century / Miliukov -- The bankruptcy of Peter's system / Pokrovsky -- Soviet academy of sciences: absolutism and the police-bureaucratic state.