The Courtships Of Catherine The Great
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: May 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781417923984
Subjects: Biography: royalty; European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); History: World; History; History - General History; Russia; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Royalty
First sentence: IF Voltaire's saying be true about the happiness of a writer who should give to the world a history of Catherine the Great, it is certain that the happiness would be greater had the ingenious minds of some authors, whose works appeared soon after her death, found better scope than in collecting and polishing up every scrap of scandal which they could by search discover concerning her.