The Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum
Subtitle: Catherine the Great's Private Passion (Great Palaces)
Publisher: Bunker Hill Publishing
Published: September 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781593730017
Subjects: Palaces, chateaux, country houses; Places & peoples: general interest; Travel - Foreign; Russia; Asia - China; Travel / Asia / China; European
First sentence: The Chinese Palace, the most important building on the Oranienbaum estate today, was built in the first six years of Catherine's reign, when this politically brilliant, intellectually gifted woman of great courage and intelligence had to work hard to establish her legitimacy: after all, she had overthrown the rightful emperor, her husband Peter III.