Peter the Great through British Eyes: Perceptions and Representations of the Tsar since 1698.(Book Review)

Canadian Journal of History | April 1, 2003| | Copyright

by Anthony Cross. New York and London, Cambridge University Press, 2000. xii, 172 pp. $54.95 U.S. (cloth).

The acknowledged stimulus to writing this book was the tercentenary of Peter the Great's visit to England in 1696. Its theme is an appraisal of British perceptions of the tsar over the course of the subsequent three centuries. Because these perceptions were connected with shifting British attitudes to Russia as a whole, the story moves beyond the biographical to take on a synecdochical meaning.

Officially Peter travelled to England incognito, but so ...

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