Catherine the Great
Subtitle: portrait of a woman
By: by Robert K. Massie
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9780679456728; 9781588360441
Subjects: Empresses; Kings and rulers; Biography; History
Description: Presents a reconstruction of the eighteenth-century empress's life that covers her efforts to engage Russia in the cultural life of Europe, her creation of the Hermitage, and her numerous scandal-free romantic affairs.
Table of contents: title: Part 1 : A German princess.; title: Sophia's childhood; title: Summoned to Russia; title: Frederick II and the journey to Russia; title: Empress Elizabeth; title: The making of a grand duke; title: Meeting Elizabeth and Peter; title: Pneumonia; title: Intercepted letters; title: Conversion and betrothal; title: A pilgrimage to Kiev and transvestite balls; title: Smallpox; title: Marriage; title: Johanna goes home; title: Part 2 : A painful marriage.; title: The Zhukova affair; title: Peepholes; title: A watchdog; title: He was not a king; title: In the bedroom; title: A house collapses; title: Summer pleasures; title: Dismissals at court; title: Moscow and the country; title: Choglokov makes an enemy and Peter survives a plot; title: A bath before Easter and a coachman's whip; title: Oysters and an actor; title: Reading, dancing, and a betrayal; title: Part 3 : Seduction, motherhood, and confrontation.; title: Saltykov; title: The birth of the heir; title: Retaliation; title: The English ambassador; title: A diplomatic earthquake; title: Poniatowski; title: A dead rat, an absent lover, and a risky proposal; title: Catherine challenges Brockdorff; she gives a party; title: Apraskin's retreat; title: Catherine's daughter; title: The fall of Bestuzhev; title: A gamble; title: Confrontation; title: A menage a quatre; title: Part 4 : The time has come!; title: Panin, Orlov, and Elizabeth's death; title: The brief reign of Peter III; title: Dura!; title: We ourselves know not what we did; title: Part 5 : Empress of Russia.; title: Coronation; title: The government and the church; title: Serfdom; title: Madame Orlov could never be Empress of Russia; title: The death of Ivan VI; title: Catherine and the Enlightenment; title: The Nakaz; title: All free estates of the realm; title: The king we have made; title: The first partition of Poland and the first Turkish War; title: Doctors, smallpox, and plague; title: The return of Peter the Third; title: The last days of the Marquis de Pugachev; title: Part 6 : Potemkin and favoritism.; title: Vasilchikov; title: Catherine and Potemkin : Passion; title: Potemkin ascending; title: Catherine and Potemkin : separation; title: New relationships; title: Favorites; title: Part 7 : My name is Catherine the Second.; title: Catherine, Paul, and Natalia; title: Paul, Maria, and the succession; title: Potemkin : builder and diplomat; title: Crimean journey and Potemkin villages; title: The Second Turkish War and the death of Potemkin; title: Art, architecture, and the bronze horseman; title: They are capable of hanging their king from a lamppost!; title: Dissent in Russia, final partition of Poland; title: Twilight; title: The death of Catherine the Great