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Genre/Form: | Biographies History Biography |
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Named Person: | Catherine, Empress of Russia; Catherine, Empress of Russia; Catherine, Empress of Russia; Zarin II ) Katharina (Russland |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Simon Dixon |
ISBN: | 9780060786274 0060786272 9780060786281 0060786280 |
OCLC Number: | 148886790 |
Notes: | Originally published: Great Britain : Profile Books, 2009. First ECCO paperback ed published in 2010 with 8 col. plates pages and 8 b & w plate pages with ISBN 9780060786281. |
Description: | xv, 432 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The coronation of a usurper, 1762 -- From Pomerania to St Petersburg, 1729-1744 -- Betrothal and marriage, 1744-1745 -- Living and loving at the Court of Empress Elizabeth, 1746-1753 -- Ambition, 1754-1759 -- Assassination, 1759-1762 -- "Our Lady of St Petersburg," 1763-1766 -- Philosopher on the throne, 1767-1768 -- Imperial ambitions, 1768-1772 -- Paul, Pugachëv, and Potëmkin, 1772-1775 -- The search for emotional stability, 1776-1784 -- Zenith, 1785-1790 -- End of an era, 1790-1796 -- The afterlife of an empress. |
Responsibility: | Simon Dixon. |
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Abstract:
A portrait of the eighteenth-century Russian empress documents her rise from a little-known German princess to become one of Europe's most celebrated monarchs, in an account that offers insight into her public and private achievements.
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