Author of "Gustavus III. and His Contemporaries," "Charles XII." "Hans Christian Andersen: A Biography"
WITH PHOTOGRAVURE FRONTISPIECE AND PORTRAITS
Demy 8vo, 318 pp. Price 15s. net.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS:
"LIGHT ON A LYCEUM PLAY."
"Mr. Nisbet Bain's new volume about the makers of Russia could not have appeared at a time more opportune for the attraction of popular interest than the moment when Sir Henry Irving has taken it upon him to interpret for us, on the stage of the Lyceum, the character of Peter the Great. His familiarity with the history and politics of Northern Europe in the last century renders him peculiarly fitted for the task of presenting us with a picture of the Russian Court and Empire up to the death of the Empress Anne."—Daily Chronicle.
"Mr. Bain has here put together from authentic sources an interesting and useful book. Without attempting the picturesque, he has written a book that attracts the reader; his judgment is sound, he is unprejudiced and tolerant, and he understands the strange world that he is depicting. His portraits have the great merit of fidelity, and he has a good knowledge of contemporary European politics."—Manchester Guardian.
"An excellent piece of historical study, founded entirely on original research, sober, broad, and sympathetic in treatment, with a fine sense of historical proportion, and most illuminating as respects the light it throws on a dark and ill-known time and country."—Spectator.
"A lucid and masterly sketch of the slow development of the modern Russian State between the year 1697 and 1740."—Daily News.
"Mr. Nisbet Bain is, without question, the best informed student of Northern history who now writes for the British Public, and the volume before us will add to his reputation."—Manchester Courier.