Petr Pervyy

Tvorchestvo Alekseya Nikolaevicha Tolstogo poistine mnogogranno: master nauchno-fantasticheskoy prozy, sozdatel' vsemi lyubimoy skazki "Zolotoy klyuchik", avtor epopei "Hozhdenie po mukam" i mnogochislennyh povestey, rasskazov i p'es. Klyuchevoy, ob'edinyayuschey mnogoobrazie syuzhetov, v tvorchestve Tolstogo okazalas' tema Rossii. Razmyshleniyami o ee prednaznachenii proniknut i roman "Petr Pervyy" — luchshiy obrazec zhanra istoricheskogo romana v sovetskoy literature. Tolstoy tschatel'no izuchal dokumental'nye istochniki, no govoril, chto "istoricheskiy roman ne mozhet pisat'sya v vide hroniki". V centre romana — obraz Petra I, pravitelya ogromnoy strany, kotoryy obladaet sil'nym i upornym harakterom i dobivaetsya ispolneniya svoih resheniy.