Frederick the Great

The "Philosopher King" of Prussia, who composed symphonies while perfecting the most efficient army the world had ever seen. He was the "Enlightened Despot," the first servant of a state he built with the precision of a clockmaker. He represents the "Paradox of the Crown"—the marriage of the flute and the musket, of reason and the battlefield. He is the Sanssouci retreat and the oblique attack, the one who proved that a small kingdom can cast a shadow across the entire world.