The Rise of Peter The Great

In 1698, a 6'8" Russian giant tore through an English gentleman's estate — trashing portraits, burning furniture and ramming wheelbarrows through a prize-winning holly hedge. The giant was Peter the Great, and Dan Snow is joined by historian Daniel Beer to work out what a rampage like that tells you about Russia's most ruthless moderniser. The episode follows his rise: surviving the lethal politics of the Kremlin, and building a brand new capital atop a mountain of human bones.