Rounding, Virginia.
New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2006.
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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 512-552) and index.
• Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 2006.
• From Feudal Anthill to the Court of Russia — Engagement and wedding — Early married life — Catherine grows up — Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams and Stanislas Poniatowski — Empress of all the Russias — Murder, coronation and conspiracy — Catherine sets to work — Laws, smallpox and war — The heroic Orlov — Confusion and unrest — Passion and pretenders — New lovers and a new daughter-in-law — Grandsons and other acquisitions — The empress and the emperor — The failures of physicians — Convalescence and recovery — The great Crimean Voyage, and ‘proverbs’ in Petersburg — The beginning of the end — Last years — Death and burial.
• A portrait of the late-eighteenth-century Russian ruler discusses how she seized and kept the throne in spite of her illegitimate claim and a series of wars, rebellions, and plagues, tracing how she rendered Russia a major European power.

Subjects:

• Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796.
• Empresses — Russia — Biography.
• Russia — Kings and rulers — Biography.
• Russia — History — Catherine II, 1762-1796.

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