Catherine the Great : love, sex and power / Virginia Rounding.
RA great thumping triumph of a bookS ("London Telegraph"), this is the first comprehensive modern biography of Catherine the Great to explore her both as a woman and empress
Record details
- ISBN: 0312328877
- ISBN: 9780312328870
- Physical Description: xxv, 566 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color portraits ; 25 cm
- Edition: First United States edition
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2007.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 2006. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 512-552) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | From Feudal Anthill to the Court of Russia -- Engagement and wedding -- Early married life -- Catherine grows up -- Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams and Stanislas Poniatowski -- Empress of all the Russias -- Murder, coronation and conspiracy -- Catherine sets to work -- Laws, smallpox and war -- The heroic Orlov -- Confusion and unrest -- Passion and pretenders -- New lovers and a new daughter-in-law -- Grandsons and other acquisitions -- The empress and the emperor -- The failures of physicians -- Convalescence and recovery -- The great Crimean Voyage, and 'proverbs' in Petersburg -- The beginning of the end -- Last years -- Death and burial. |
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| Subject: | Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796. Empresses > Russia > Biography. Russia > History > Catherine II, 1762-1796. Russia > Kings and rulers > Biography. |
| Genre: | Biographies. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Statesville Main Library | B CATHERINE ROU (Text) | 33114015762982 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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