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Terrible tsarinas : five Russian women in power / Henri Troyat ; translated by Andrea Lyn Secara.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Troyat, Henri, 1911-2007, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Empresses--Russia--Biography.
- Empresses.
- Russia--History--1689-1801.
- Russia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Algora Publishing, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Five flamboyant, "full-blooded"" women had a chance to rule Russia. How did it happen, and how did they do? In today's debates about male-female parity, much goes unsaid. Troyat's book brings back the past, when women really had political power. A realisti
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; I CATHERINE SHOWS THE WAY; II CATHERINE'S REIGN: A FLASH OF FLAMBOYANCE; III MACHINATIONS AROUND THE THRONE; IV THE SURPRISE ACCESSION OF ANNA IVANOVNA; V THE EXTRAVAGANT ANNA; VI ONE ANNA AFTER ANOTHER; VII ELIZABETH'S TRIUMPH; VIII AN AUTOCRAT AT WORK AND PLAY; IX ELIZABETHAN RUSSIA; X HER MAJESTY AND THEIR IMPERIAL HIGHNESSES; XI ANOTHER CATHERINE!; INDEX; THE ROMANOV DYNASTY
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 12, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-280-60903-6
- 9786610609031
- 1-892941-34-1
- 0-87586-148-2
- OCLC:
- 123113278
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