About the book: 1992 / This book is about the passions of Tsar Peter, his faithful and unfaithful wives, mistresses, intrigues, betrayals... The author interprets Russian quite freely and subjectively the history of those distant years. However, this is not a historical study, but a novel about love and hate, about loyalty and jealousy, where history is only the background against which the most interesting, exciting events, full of drama, unfold. This is the story of the Great Love of a Great Man. The young Tsar Peter Alekseevich is only eighteen years old, but he has already survived the Streltsy riots, the malicious intent of the royal sister and mortal fear. He runs away from stuffy, treacherous Moscow to a foreign settlement, where the lovely Ankhen Mons awaits him.…