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Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman / Robert K. Massie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Massie, Robert K., 1929-2019
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796.
- Catherine.
- Empresses--Russia--Biography.
- Empresses.
- Russia.
- Russia--Kings and rulers--Biography.
- Kings and rulers.
- Russia--History--Catherine II, 1762-1796.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 625 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [2011]
- Summary:
- Presents a reconstruction of the eighteenth-century empress's life that covers her efforts to engage Russia in the cultural life of Europe, her creation of the Hermitage, and her numerous scandal-free romantic affairs.
- Contents:
- A German princess
- A painful marriage
- Seduction, Motherhood, and confrontation
- "The time has come!"
- Empress of Russia
- Potemkin and favoritism
- "My name is Catherine the Second".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [577]-579) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780679456728
- 0679456724
- 9781588360441
- 158836044X
- OCLC:
- 694832857
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