Peter the Great: His Life and World, by Robert K. Massie; a biography of the man who founded the Russian Empire. The ongoing events in Ukraine and Crimea have rekindled my interest in re-reading this book.
Incidentally, Massie is one author who has a gift of making history sound truly interesting. Nicholas and Alexandra, a recounting of the tragic lives of the last Russian Tsar and Tsaritsa, is another one of his engaging works.
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