Peter The Great Alys Fowler No one expected her to

No one expected her to survive

Grit and Glamour features an incredible range of photography by famed artist Allan Tannenbaum covering the styles and fashions of the iconic decade

It's something worth getting the barbecue out for

but their kidnapped mother is still in the hands of nasty pirates

Peter The Great Alys Fowler No one expected her toThe compelling story of the man who created modern Russia, founded St Petersburg and made his country part of Europe. Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe and Russia, Robert K. Massie unfolds the extraordinary story of Peter the Great. A volatile feudal tsar with a taste for barbaric torture; a progressive and enlightened reformer of government and science; a statesman of vision who recreated his country's army