num_pages: 169
description: Fourteen-year-old Prussian princess Sophia finds herself entangled in her mother's efforts to arrange a marriage between Sophia and Charles-Peter, a young German duke and nephew of the Russian empress Elizabeth. As Sophia's mother moves to make the match, she and Sophia must travel from their humble home in Zerbst, Prussia, to Russia--the kingdom of Elizabeth. There, Sophia is renamed Catherine and married to Charles-Peter, but she watches helplessly as her family is torn from her, her own mother is involved in a spying ring against the empress, and all that is familiar to her disappears.
language: English
title: Catherine: The Great Journey, Russia, 1743
titlecomplete: Catherine: The Great Journey, Russia, 1743
characters: Catherine the Great
genres: Historical, Princesses, 18th Century, Childrens, Russia, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Diary, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 3687
places: Russia, Russian Federation
series: The Royal Diaries, Mon Histoire
publisher: Scholastic