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. Emperor Peter I is busy with state affairs, visiting Europe, expanding his horizons. Annushka Mons bored him, as did his hateful legal wife, imprisoned in a monastery. Menshikov knows how to dispel the royal boredom…