It is impossible to find another historical figure who influenced the fate of Russia as significantly as Peter the Great. However, neither he nor his comrades and like-minded people, senators and diplomats, military leaders and naval commanders who created the great history of the country with him, were like mythological titans, but were living people with their own talents and ambitions, dedication and quarrelsomeness, selflessness and greed, sentimentality and cruelty. The book by historian Viktor Naumov tells how members of Peter I’s inner circle worked, traveled, fought, had fun at assemblies and sessions of the blasphemous All-Drunken Council, walked at weddings and saw off on their last journey, where they lived, how they cheated on their wives and loved their children. what they were sick with, what games and entertainments they brightened up their leisure time.