The famous work of the outstanding Russian historian Sergey Mikhailovich Solovyov is rightly considered one of the largest achievements of Russian historical scholarship in the 19th century. S. M. Solovyov is 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 fourteenth volume of the large 29-volume edition is devoted to the events of 1682–1703—from the reign of Tsarevna Sophia to the first years of the reign of Peter I Alekseevich.