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Author Cronin, Vincent, author

Title Catherine, Empress of all the Russias / Vincent Cronin
Edition First edition
Published New York : Morrow, 1978
Great Britain : William Collins Sons & Company, Ltd., [1978]
New York : William Morrow and Company, Inc., [1978]

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Description 349 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents A general's daughter -- Invitation for two -- All the Russias -- Journey to Moscow -- Becoming Catherine -- The married prisoners -- Humiliation -- Motherhood by command -- Indiscretions -- Disgrace -- Preparing to rule -- Peter's reign -- Oak leaves and poison -- Reforming Russia -- The move to compassion -- Victories abroad -- Portrait of the empress -- Enter Potemkin -- The literary scene -- Of palaces and paintings -- Potemkin predominant -- The later achievements -- Like a fly in Spring -- Criticism and sedition -- The dream of a Russian Europe -- Catherine the Great
Summary A biography of the German princess who became the absolute ruler of the Russian empire and won for herself the reputation of a great enlightened monarch
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-335) and index
Subject Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796.
Catherine, Empress of Russia II, 1729-1796
SUBJECT Russia -- History -- Catherine II, 1762-1796. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125793
Russia -- Kings and rulers -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116743
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 77028809
ISBN 0688033059
9780688033057