Author: Tolstoi, Aleksei [ Tolstoy, Aleksey ]
Title: Petr Pervyi - Roman : Kniga Pervaia, Vtoraia, Tret'ia
Description: Gosudarsmvennoe Izdatel'stvo Khudozhestvennaya Literatura, Moskva, 1947, 1st thus. Cloth, VG. 808pp, b/w frontis, b/w plates, page edges a little tanned & foxed, internally fine. CYRILLIC text. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Tolstoy's large & well received historical novel which covers Russia in the 1680s to the 1720s - The time of Peter the Great & the increasing influence of Europe on Russia. Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy [ 1883 - 1945 ] Russian novelist who compares well with the distantly related Leo Tolstoy, despite being largely unknown in the West. He was still working on this novel at the time of his death, the third short tranche appearing in 1945.

Keywords: literature, russian literature, soviet literature