Catherine the Great
Life and Legend
One of the most colorful characters in modern history, Catherine II of Russia began her life as a minor German princess, until the childless Empress Elizabeth and Catherine's own scheming mother married her off to the Grand Duke Peter of Russia at age sixteen. By thirty-three, she had overthrown her husband in a bloodless coup and established herself as Empress of the multinational Russian Empire, the largest territorial political unit in modern history.Portrayed both as a political genius who restored to Russia the glory it had known in the days of Peter the Great and as a despotic foreign adventuress who usurped the Russian throne, murdered…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-987885-7
- EAN: 9780199878857
- Produktnummer: 13999925
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1988
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 6'115 KB
- Abbildungen: photos, illus.
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John T. Alexander is Professor of History and Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Kansas.
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