The famous work of the outstanding Russian historian Sergey Mikhailovich Solovyov is one of the most important achievements of nineteenth-century Russian historical scholarship. S. M. Solovyov was the “first among equals” among a constellation of brilliant Russian historians, including N. Karamzin, V. Klyuchevsky, N. Kostomarov, A. Presnyakov, T. Granovsky, S. Platonov, and many others.
The fifteenth volume of the large-scale 29-volume edition is devoted to the era of the reign of Peter I Alexeyevich and covers the events of 1703–1709.