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Genre/Form: | Biography |
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Named Person: | Catherine, Empress of Russia; Catherine, Empress of Russia |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Henri Troyat |
ISBN: | 0525078134 9780525078135 |
OCLC Number: | 5830542 |
Notes: | Translation of Catherine la Grande. |
Description: | xv, 377 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Figchen -- En route -- The steps of the throne -- Betrothal -- Marriage -- The virgin wife -- Love and motherhood -- First political skirmishes -- The big scene -- Love, gathering darkness, perfidy -- The reign of Peter III -- The coup d'Etat -- The apprenticeship of power -- Incense and blood -- "Legislomania" -- The French and the Turks -- The marriage of the grand duke -- Diderot and Pugachev -- Potemkin -- Catherine the great -- Lanskoy -- The journey to the Crimea -- Wars -- Zubov against Potemkin -- Poland and France -- The end. |
Other Titles: | Catherine la Grande. |
Responsibility: | Henri Troyat ; translated by Joan Pinkham. |
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