"Peter" – a novel about a turning point in the life of Russia

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A. N. Tolstoy novel “Peter” was created about a decade and a half. It was written three books planned continuation of the epic, but even the third book was not completed. Before writing, the author deeply studied the historical sources, and as a result we have the opportunity to see a portrait of the founder of the Empire.
Peter the Roman

“Peter” – a novel about the manners and life of the era in which this magnificent portraits of historical figures of Peter's time. This contributes greatly to language, which conveys the flavor of the seventeenth century.

Childhood and youth of the king

After the death of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, and then his son Fyodor Alexeyevich, the authorities sought to come active and energetic, Sophia Alexeyevna, but the boyars are predicting for the Kingdom of Peter – a healthy and lively son Naryshkina. “Peter” – a novel which describes the tragic events in Russia, ruled by the old nobility, not the intelligence and business acumen, where life goes on in the old way.

Tolstoy Peter the great

Spurred on by Sophia Sagittarians are demanding that they showed the two young princes, Ivan and Peter, who later induct the Kingdom. But despite this, in reality, the state is ruled by their sister Sophia. She sends Vasily Golitsyn in the Crimea war with the Tatars, but ignominiously returned the Russian army. Meanwhile Petrushka is growing up far away from the Kremlin. “Peter” – the novel that introduces the reader to those persons who in the future will be associates of Peter: Aleksashka Menshikov, Franz Lefort, smart boyar Boris Golitsyn, Fedor Sommer. In the German quarter, young Peter meets Anna Mons, who later becomes the uncrowned Queen. Meanwhile, the mother marries son to Eudoxia Lopukhina, who did not understand the aspirations of her husband and gradually becomes to him a burden. As rapidly develops the action in the novel by Tolstoy.

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the novel Peter the first image of Peter

“Peter” – a novel that in the first part shows in what conditions is the origin of the indomitable character of the autocrat: the conflict with Sophia, the capture of Azov, the Grand Embassy, works on shipyards in the Netherlands, return and bloody suppression of the Streltsy uprising. One thing is clear – Rus in Byzantine Petra's not going to happen.

Maturity autocrat

How the king builds a new country, shows in the second volume of Tolstoy. Peter does not sleep boyars, elevates active merchant Brovkina, gives his daughter to marry into the Sanka for their former Lord and master Volkov. The young king is eager to bring the country to the sea, to free and duty-free to trade and to get rich. He organized the Voronezh building of the fleet. Later, Peter swims to the shores of the Bosphorus. By this time, died, Franz Lefort – a loyal friend and assistant, who knew the king better than he himself. But the ideas Lefort, who could not articulate Peter, begin to be implemented. It is surrounded by active, energetic people, and all moss-covered and ossified boyars, like Buinosova have the power to pull out of their slumber. Merchant Brovkin is gaining a lot of power in the state, and his daughter, a noble boyar Volkov, learning Russian and foreign languages and dreams of Paris. Son of Jacob – in the Navy, Gabriel is studying in Holland, Artemisa, received a good education, helping his father.

War with Sweden

Already laid on the muddy and marshy banks of the Neva river in Saint Petersburg-the new capital of Russia.

a n Tolstoy's novel Peter the first

Natalia, beloved sister of Peter, in Moscow does not doze the boyars. She put on plays, arranges a European courtyard sweetheart Peter-Catherine. Meanwhile, the war begins with Sweden. About 1703–1704 years tells in the third book Tolstoy. Peter stands at the head of the troops, and after a long siege, takes the town, and General – the commandant's horn, which is doomed to the senseless loss of a lot of people gone to jail.

Person Peter

Peter & ndash; the Central person of the work. The novel introduced many of the actors from the people who see it and tampered with abroad of the ruler, and the king-reformer, who is hardworking and not shy of dirty work: he cuts himself with an axe during the construction of the ships. The king is curious, sociable, brave in battle. Novel “Peter” the way Peter is in the dynamics and development: from the infant poorly educated boys, who already in his childhood begins to plan the creation of an army of a new type, to purposeful Builder of a huge Empire.

Peter 1

On his way he sweeps away all that prevents Russia to become a full-fledged European state. The main thing for him at any age – to sweep away the old, musty, all that prevents forward movement.

Evocative paintings of the Petrine era was created by A. N. Fat. Roman "Peter" easy to read and captures the reader immediately. The language is rich, fresh, historically accurate. The artistic skill of the writer is based not only on talent but also on a thorough study of primary sources (the writings of N. Ustryalov, S. Solovyov, I. Golikova, diaries and notes of his contemporaries of Peter, the torture records). Based on the novel set of feature films.


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