First Edition. With 500 drawings by Adolf Menzel. Fedor Alekseevich Koni (1809-1879) - Russian playwright, theater critic, memoirist, theater historian. Studies in history led Koni to a large and serious composition - to the "History of Frederick the Great," published in 1844 and constituting a large format volume with excellent polytips. This book, written with great talent, arousing in the reader an unrelenting interest in the personality and life of Frederick II, and based on the study of many foreign sources and affairs of our archive of the General Staff, was, in its time, an outstanding work