Format:
Online-Ressource (256 p.)
ISBN:
9781892941541
Content:
Five flamboyant, "full-blooded" women had a chance to rule Russia. How did it happen, and how did they do? In today's debates about male-female parity, much goes unsaid. Troyat's book brings back the past, when women really had political power. A realisti
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Description based upon print version of record
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CONTENTS; I CATHERINE SHOWS THE WAY; II CATHERINE'S REIGN: A FLASH OF FLAMBOYANCE; III MACHINATIONS AROUND THE THRONE; IV THE SURPRISE ACCESSION OF ANNA IVANOVNA; V THE EXTRAVAGANT ANNA; VI ONE ANNA AFTER ANOTHER; VII ELIZABETH'S TRIUMPH; VIII AN AUTOCRAT AT WORK AND PLAY; IX ELIZABETHAN RUSSIA; X HER MAJESTY AND THEIR IMPERIAL HIGHNESSES; XI ANOTHER CATHERINE!; INDEX; THE ROMANOV DYNASTY;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781892941343
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781892941541
Additional Edition:
Print version Terrible Tsarinas : Five Russian Women in Power
Language:
English
Keywords:
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