For such a gigantic personality as Peter the Great, who is able to convert an entire people to the road of progress, with which neither people nor circumstances have already knocked him down - a story is needed that is just as comprehensive, lively, carries the reader to the scene, introducing him to all the springs explicit and secret, which contributed to the action or stopped it. We need a story written by the hand of a recognized life writer, who would have to convey with a word what Peter did.