"History of Peter I" is an unfinished historical work of the brilliant Russian poet, "the sun of Russian poetry," playwright and prose writer A. S. Pushkin (1799-1837). It presents a chronology of events during the reign of Peter the Great. Pushkin planned to write "History of Peter I" on its basis in a maximum of a year. At the same time he worked on "The History of Pugachev" and "The Captain's Daughter". The work was interrupted by a duel...Nicholas I forbade printing the manuscript. The reason is that the author, with great courage for that time, allowed himself to talk not only about the positive, but also the negative qualities of the emperor. "History of Peter I" entered literature as a bold work and became a new word in development of "art history". Pushkin wrote many wonderful works: "The Queen of Spades", "Ruslan and Lyudmila", "Eugene Onegin", "The Gypsies", "The Mermaid", "The Little House in Kolomna", "The Prisoner of the Caucasus", "Poltava", "The Bronze Horseman", "The Story of Pugachev". Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, during his lifetime, earned himself a reputation as the greatest poet Russia, whose work influenced the development of both Russian and world literature. The greatest merit of the brilliant poet is also that he became the creator of modern Russianliterary language
