Robert Massie

suitors doubtless few. Alexis declared that there were still a few

Today, Peter’s boat is the most prized exhibit of the Navy Museum of the U.S.S.R. in the former Stock Exchange building on the point of Leningrad’s Vasilevsky Island.

Thus, Peter’s arrival and the rapid assembly of his forces inside the powerful walls of the fortified monastery had been carefully prearranged.

The city walls were constructed just inside the outermost canal so that the canal itself made a natural moat.

thirty years of age, with a dark complexion, proud and grave, and with an expressive countenance

razor and with his own hands began shaving off their beards. He began with Shein, the commander

forced to take a new name as a nun, Helen. Later in Peter’s life, she

Streltsy, the two Azov campaigns had conclusively demonstrated to Peter how inferior

special privilege and to fight only when and where they wished, the poor performance as soldiers

Nikon’s legacy was the opposite of that he had intended. Never again would a patriarch wield such power; thereafter the Russian church would be clearly subordinate to the state.