Catherine the Great.
By: Translated from the French by Anne Carter.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796
Description: This picture of the Russian ruler as a woman shows that Catherine was engulfed in such intrigue and conflict that she had to rule or to perish. The eventual murder of her husband, her dizzying succession of lovers were only the outward scandalous appurtenances of a court and an era that were still ... brutal and primitive.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [370]-371.