{"product_id":"9780688167080","title":"Peter the Great","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeter the Great, crowned tsar of Russia at the age of ten, believed that whatever he wanted he should have — and the sooner the better. What he wanted most was to bring his beloved country into the modem world. He traveled to the West to learn European ways — the first tsar ever to leave Russia — disguised as a common soldier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe explored the West with excitement and curiosity and returned home ready to undertake a series of momentous social reforms. And to satisfy his boyhood dream of a Russian naval port, he began to build, on a freezing swamp, a glittering new capital to be named St. Petersburg.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this welcome reissue of Diane Stanley's acclaimed picturebook biography, her meticulously researched text and sumptuous illustrations capture the fabulous world of seventeenth — and eighteenth-century tsarist Russia and the greatness of its larger-than-life leader — a man of huge stature and tremendous spirit whose impatience and vision, insatiable curiosity and boundless energy transformed half a continent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47014296813808,"sku":"9780688167080","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780688167080_p0.jpg?v=1763608259","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780688167080","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}