by Voltaire · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788477742463
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«Historia del Imperio Ruso: bajo el reinado de Pedro el Grande» is Voltaire's historical essay (Antonio Machado Libros, paperback, 313 pp., in Spanish).
Voltaire reviews the reign of Peter the Great and Russia's consolidation as a European power: the tsar's military campaigns, his reforms as a legislator, and the comparison with Charles XII of Sweden, whom he sets against him as a founder versus a conqueror.
Published in 2006, this edition includes the translation by Cristina Ridruejo Ramos and belongs to the Papeles del tiempo collection.
A read for those interested in Russian history and in the classics of historiography on Peter the Great.
François-Marie Arouet, known by his pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity and of slavery, Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.
