Catherine the Great

Life and Legend

AvJohn T. Alexander

Inbunden, Engelska, 1989

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John Alexander has provided the first popular biography of one of the most powerful, infamous, and colourful figures in modern history. Empress of the vast Russian Empire by the age of 33, Catherine's private and public life generated tremendous controversy, and she has been portrayed variously as a political genius, a despotic foreign adventuress, a tyrant, and a nymphomaniac. John Alexander's detailed research draws on little-known sources, including Catherine's love notes, to produce a much-needed, balanced appraisal of this remarkable woman throughout the whole of her long reign.

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Utgivningsdatum:1989-03-23
Mått:165 x 243 x 36 mm
Vikt:771 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:456
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780195052367
Utmärkelser:Winner of the Byron Caldwell Smith Award (USA)

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'a balanced, comprehensive portrait of the woman whom custom calls "the Great", whom gossip painted as scarlet, but whom Diderot described probably accurately as "the soul of Brutus in the body of "Cleaopatra"'Sunday Times