UID:
edocfu_9959226636002883
Format:
1 online resource (457 p.)
ISBN:
0-19-987885-4
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1-283-12136-0
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9786613121363
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0-19-987430-1
Series Statement:
Oxford Lives
Content:
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 a
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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pt. 1. Catherine's youth and her accession to the throne -- pt. 2. The crises of mid-life -- pt. 3. An aging empress.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-506162-4
Language:
English
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