• Genealogical Table and Maps List Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition CHAPTER 1 Russia before Peter: Modernization and Resistance CHAPTER 2 The Young Tsar CHAPTER 3 The First Initiatives: the Capture of Azov and the 'Great Embassy' to the West CHAPTER 4 Emergence into Europe: the Great Northern War CHAPTER 5 A New State and Society? 91 CHAPTER 6 Opposition and its Repression: the Tsarevich Alexis CHAPTER 7 Peter the Man: Character and Personality CHAPTER 8 'The Greatest Monarch of our Age': Peter's Place in History Genealogical Table and Maps Chronology Further Reading Index

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• Genealogical Table and Maps List Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition CHAPTER 1 Russia before Peter: Modernization and Resistance CHAPTER 2 The Young Tsar CHAPTER 3 The First Initiatives: the Capture of Azov and the 'Great Embassy' to the West CHAPTER 4 Emergence into Europe: the Great Northern War CHAPTER 5 A New State and Society? 91 CHAPTER 6 Opposition and its Repression: the Tsarevich Alexis CHAPTER 7 Peter the Man: Character and Personality CHAPTER 8 'The Greatest Monarch of our Age': Peter's Place in History Genealogical Table and Maps Chronology Further Reading Index

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• Genealogical Table and Maps List Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition CHAPTER 1 Russia before Peter: Modernization and Resistance CHAPTER 2 The Young Tsar CHAPTER 3 The First Initiatives: the Capture of Azov and the 'Great Embassy' to the West CHAPTER 4 Emergence into Europe: the Great Northern War CHAPTER 5 A New State and Society? 91 CHAPTER 6 Opposition and its Repression: the Tsarevich Alexis CHAPTER 7 Peter the Man: Character and Personality CHAPTER 8 'The Greatest Monarch of our Age': Peter's Place in History Genealogical Table and Maps Chronology Further Reading Index

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