The subtitle for this book is a very good choice, since this is a book mostly about Catherine the Great and only about Russian history when it's related to her. I wanted to read this book because I realized that I know almost nothing about Russian history.
This is an epic biography! It is thorough, not only giving readers a great portrait of Catherine, but also a great portrait of the place and times in which she lived. This is a lengthy, but extremely readable book.
Robert Massie’s Catherine the Great covers the life and death of this famous, and infamous, Russian ruler, the last female monarch in Russia. Starting with her inauspicious beginnings and ending with her death, Mr. Massie guarantees that a reader will finish his biography with a complete and detaile...
A really fascinating collection of photographs of European royalty, taken from the mid nineteenth century into the early twentieth. More than any other book, this gave an idea of how interconnected the families were: seeing the kings of Greece, Romania, English and Russian dukes, all seated around ...
Nicholas & Alexandra is the tragic and compelling story of the last Tsar and his family by Robert K. Massie, this book was first published in 1968 and is an amazing and historically accurate account of the fall of the Romanovs and the collapse of Imperial Russia but is also The story of Nicholas a h...
I've loved reading Robert K. Massie's Nicholas and Alexandra, and have read it multiple times. So I was looking forward to reading this, yet a bit worried that it wouldn't live up to my expectations. I needn't have worried.One of Massie's strengths is his ability to bring his readers close enough ...
There were two reasons that I read this book, One, I had read Massie's Pulitzer Prize winning book, Nicholas and Alexandra previously and I wanted to read this book after reading that book to gain some historical perspective on how previous Russian tzars had influenced the decisions that Nicholas ma...
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