Documents of Catherine the Great
Author: Catherine II (Empress of Russia)
Publisher: CUP Archive
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Total Pages: 392
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Publisher: CUP Archive
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: W. F. Reddaway
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-03-29
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 110769485X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This 1931 volume includes key documents relating to Catherine II of Russia. An introduction and notes are provided, together with a chronological table covering events between 1762 and 1777. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Catherine's reign, Russian history, and eighteenth-century history in general.
Author: Catherine the Great
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2006-06-13
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 0812969871
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Empress Catherine II brought Europe to Russia, and Russia to Europe, during her long and eventful reign (1762—96). She fostered the culture of the Enlightenment and greatly expanded the immense empire created by Czar Ivan the Terrible, shifting the balance of power in Europe eastward. Famous for her will to power and for her dozen lovers, Catherine was also a prolific and gifted writer. Fluent in French, Russian, and German, Catherine published political theory, journalism, comedies, operas, and history, while writing thousands of letters as she corresponded with Voltaire and other public figures. The Memoirs of Catherine the Great provides an unparalleled window into eighteenth-century Russia and the mind of an absolute ruler. With insight, humor, and candor, Catherine presents her eyewitness account of history, from her whirlwind entry into the Russian court in 1744 at age fourteen as the intended bride of Empress Elizabeth I’s nephew, the eccentric drunkard and future Peter III, to her unhappy marriage; from her two children, several miscarriages, and her and Peter’s numerous affairs to the political maneuvering that enabled Catherine to seize the throne from him in 1762. Catherine’s eye for telling details makes for compelling reading as she describes the dramatic fall and rise of her political fortunes. This definitive new translation from the French is scrupulously faithful to her words and is the first for which translators have consulted original manuscripts written in Catherine’s own hand. It is an indispensable work for anyone interested in Catherine the Great, Russian history, or the eighteenth century.
Author: Catherine II (Empress of Russia)
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 376
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Katharine Susan Anthony
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 382
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John T. Alexander
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1989-11-09
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 0195061624
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines all aspects of Catherine the Great's life and career, focusing on her role as mother, lover, and ruler during her reign as Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796.
Author: Virginia Rounding
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2007-02-06
Total Pages: 985
ISBN-13: 1429967986
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Dutiful daughter, frustrated wife, passionate lover, domineering mother, doting grandmother, devoted friend, tireless legislator, generous patron of artists and philosophers—the Empress Catherine II, the Great, was all these things, and more. Her reign, the longest in Russian Imperial history, lasted from 1762 until her death in 1796; during those years she built on the work begun by her most famous predecessor, Peter the Great, to establish Russia as a major European power and to transform its new capital, St Petersburg, into a city to rival Paris and London in the beauty of its architecture, the glittering splendor of its Court and the magnificence of its art collections. Yet the great Catherine was not even Russian by birth and had no legitimate claim to the Russian throne; she seized it and held on to it, through wars, rebellions and plagues, by the force of her personality, by her charm and determination, and by an unshakable belief in her own destiny. This is the story of Catherine the woman, whom power alone could never satisfy, for she also wanted love, affection, friendship and humor. She found these in letter-writing, in grandchildren, in gardens, architecture and greyhounds—as well as in a succession of lovers which gave rise to salacious rumors throughout Europe. The real Catherine, however, was more interesting than any rumor. Using many of Catherine's own words from her voluminous correspondence and other documents, as well as contemporary accounts by courtiers, ambassadors and foreign visitors, Virginia Rounding penetrates the character of this most powerful, fascinating and surprisingly sympathetic of eighteenth-century women.
Author: Robert K. Massie
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 673
ISBN-13: 0679456724
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Biography of Catherine II (1729-1796), 'the Great', empress of Russia from 1762 till 1796.