TY - BOOK AU - Oliva,Lawrence Jay TI - Peter the Great T2 - Great lives observed SN - 0136620728 AV - DK131 .O39 U1 - 947/.05/0924B PY - 1970///] CY - Englewood Cliffs, N.J. PB - Prentice-Hall KW - Peter KW - Pierre KW - Rois et souverains KW - Russie KW - Biographies KW - Histoire KW - 1689-1725 (Pierre Ier) N1 - "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 UR - http://www.archive.org/details/petergreat00oliv UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL4913680M ER -