A very good, very readable biography of Catherine the Great.
No dust cover - pooh but it was only one penny to buy. You pay your money and take your chance.The woman who became Catherine II, the Great, Empress of all the Russias, was born Sophie Frederica Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst on 21 April Old Style, 2 May New Style, 1729, in the Baltic port of Stettin in P...