Peter the Great (The Library of Great Lives)

x, [2], 392 pp. 8vo. Black full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in, color frontispiece portrait of Peter the Great. Translated from the French by Joan Pinkham, with a foreword by Patricia Palmieri. A biography of the Russian Tsar who ruled from 1682 to 1725, and is known for spearheading numerous advancements in governance, and for founding and developing the city of St. Petersburg.