Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
by Robert K. Massie
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0345408772
- ISBN 13
- 9780345408778
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About This Item
New York: Random House, September 2012. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 639 pages.
A masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became Catherine the Great. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination. For thirty-four years, the government, foreign policy, cultural development, and welfare of the Russian people were in her hands. She dealt with domestic rebellion, foreign wars, and the tidal wave of political change and violence churned up by the French Revolution. Catherine's family, friends, ministers, generals, lovers, and enemies--all are here, vividly brought to life.
Synopsis
Robert K. Massie was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and studied American history at Yale and European history at Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He was president of the Authors Guild from 1987 to 1991. His previous books include Nicholas and Alexandra, Peter the Great: His Life and World (for which he won a Pulitzer Prize for biography) , The Romanovs: The Final Chapter, Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War, and Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea.
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- Bookseller
- Books of the World (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000004124
- Title
- Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
- Author
- Robert K. Massie
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0345408772
- ISBN 13
- 9780345408778
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- September 2012
- Pages
- 639
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- biography, history, Catherine II, empress, empresses, monarchs, queens, Russia
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Russia, Soviet Union, etc.; Biographies; Feminism, Women's Studies, and Gender Issues;
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