Catherine: The Great Journey, Russia, 1743
Subtitle: The Royal Diaries
By: by Kristiana Gregory.
Series: The Royal Diaries
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: Catherine -- II, -- Empress of Russia, -- 1729-1796 -- Juvenile fiction; Elizabeth, -- Empress of Russia, -- 1709-1762 -- Juvenile fiction; Peter -- III, -- Emperor of Russia, -- 1723-1762 -- Juvenile fiction; Russia -- History -- Elizabeth, 1741-1762 -- Juvenile fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction
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.