『The Life of Peter the Great』 is a work that depicts the life of Peter the Great, who led the modernization of Russia.
Having possessed a will to reform since childhood, he is evaluated as an 'innovative monarch' who completed national reform by checking the vested interests of the nobility and clergy after ascending to the throne and actively introducing Western civilization and institutions, thereby raising Russia to the status of a European power.
This work holds significant significance in that it attempted to convey the ideals of modern leadership and national reform to Korean intellectuals during the Enlightenment Period.
It is considered a representative example of the literary realization of the ideal of building a modern nation through the translation of a Western heroic biography.