Ken Saunders’s Reviews > Peter the Great: His Life and World > Status Update

Our Russian history book club bailed on Dostoevsky after 200 pages so now back to the usual. And what a treat with such a fabulous opening chapter. I mean we already get human remains blasted out of a cannon (sending 'False Dmitry' back to Poland by express air) and naked alcoholics shivering outside bars to await their fix.