Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Lovis Corinth, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and Eduard Hildebrandt. Peter the Great against his own son, and a father who has the boy tortured to death for treason. The third of Merezhkovsky's trilogy on the pagan and Christian worlds; the interrogation scenes are taken from the surviving transcripts. This edition is bound with 53 plates of paintings, among them works by Vasily Surikov, Lovis Corinth and Paul Klee.