Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780606268363 (0606268367)
Publish date: September 18th 2012
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Pages no: 639
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult,
Russia,
Biography Memoir,
Womens,
European History,
18th Century
I enjoyed this book a lot: it’s an entertaining and accessible biography that is nevertheless serious and thorough, and with a fascinating subject to boot. Born a princess in a tiny German principality in the early 18th century, Catherine (actually named Sophia, until the then-Empress of Russia rena...
**UPDATE: I originally was going to DNF this. I wrote a review and everything. But then I ended up finishing. As it turns out, my opinion about the book remains essentially unchanged, so the new review just has a few edits. Catherine the Great has to be one of the most fascinating women of hist...
Robert K. Massie makes Catherine the Great come to life as he traces her beginnings as the German Princess Sophia to her ending as Russian Empress Catherine II. He demonstrates their personalities through their actions as he describes their reactions to the circumstances around them.The story itself...
Robert K. Massie makes Catherine the Great come to life as he traces her beginnings as the German Princess Sophia to her ending as Russian Empress Catherine II. He demonstrates their personalities through their actions as he describes their reactions to the circumstances around them.The story itself...
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