Catherine the Great
Subtitle: love, sex and power
By: Virginia Rounding.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 566
ISBN-13: 9780312328870
Subjects: Catherine -- II, -- Empress of Russia, -- 1729-1796; Empresses -- Russia -- Biography; Russia -- Kings and rulers -- Biography; Russia -- History -- Catherine II, 1762-1796
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 512-552) and index.
Table of contents: title: From Feudal Anthill to the Court of Russia; title: Engagement and wedding; title: Early married life; title: Catherine grows up; title: Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams and Stanislas Poniatowski; title: Empress of all the Russias; title: Murder, coronation and conspiracy; title: Catherine sets to work; title: Laws, smallpox and war; title: The heroic Orlov; title: Confusion and unrest; title: Passion and pretenders; title: New lovers and a new daughter-in-law; title: Grandsons and other acquisitions; title: The empress and the emperor; title: The failures of physicians; title: Convalescence and recovery; title: The great Crimean Voyage, and 'proverbs' in Petersburg; title: The beginning of the end; title: Last years; title: Death and burial.