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Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power
by Rounding, Virginia
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0091799929
- ISBN 13
- 9780091799922
- Seller
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Forestdale, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
London: Hutchinson, 2006. New book, 566 pages. 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 or London in the beauty of its architecture, the glittering splendour of its Court, and the magnificence of its art collections. 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 seeks to penetrate the character of this most powerful, fascinating and surprisingly sympathetic of eighteenth century women.. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. 512-552) and index.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Viceroy Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002781
- Title
- Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power
- Author
- Rounding, Virginia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 0091799929
- ISBN 13
- 9780091799922
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- CATHERINE II EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
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