Word: preobrashensk
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Peter's older brother, Ivan, is a moron; his sister, Sofia, is grasping for the throne. His mother's lover, Prince Galizyn, has been inherited by Sofia. A Prussian lieutenant tutors Peter in the palace at Preobrashensk. One day tailors arrive. Peter is outfitted and taken to Moscow. Ivan is dead. Peter is proclaimed Tsar...
...kills his horse driving back to Preobrashensk, and arrives with wolves harnessed to his sled. He meets a rebellious regiment and touches with his whip handle the men to be hanged by their com rades. Before the Cathedral of Saint Basil blood flows from his manifold executions. Other rebels are hanged and sent floating down the Don on rafts...
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