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Catherine the Great : life and legend / John T. Alexander.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alexander, John T.
- Series:
- Oxford Lives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796.
- Catherine.
- Russia--Kings and rulers--Biography.
- Russia.
- Russia--History--Catherine II, 1762-1796.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (457 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- One of the most colorful characters in modern history, Catherine II of Russia began her life as a minor German princess, until the childless Empress Elizabeth and Catherine's own scheming mother married her off to the Grand Duke Peter of Russia at age sixteen. By thirty-three, she had overthrown her husband in a bloodless coup and established herself as Empress of the multinational Russian Empire, the largest territorial political unit in modern history. Portrayed both as a political genius who restored to Russia the glory it had known in the days of Peter the Great and as a despotic foreign a
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Catherine's youth and her accession to the throne
- pt. 2. The crises of mid-life
- pt. 3. An aging empress.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-987885-4
- 1-283-12136-0
- 9786613121363
- 0-19-987430-1
- OCLC:
- 729246425
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