Chronicle of the Russian Tsars
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
This new Chronicle documents the lives of tsars famous and infamous in a series of biographical portraits stretching from the late fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Discover the facts behind the reputations of tsars such as Ivan the Terrible, whose reign of terror was unparalleled in Russian history until Stalin; Peter the Great, dynamic reformer and dedicated Westernizer; Catherine the Great, the determined young German princess who usurped power and is remembered for her interest in the Enlighte