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Catherine The Great: Love, Sex, and Power
Virginia Rounding
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Description for Catherine The Great: Love, Sex, and Power
Paperback. While it is true that Catherine the Great shocked the Russian court with the number and age of her lovers, there is no truth in the rumour of her death by stallion. Unhappily married to the Grand Duke Peter, she turned her attentions to a certain Sergey Saltykov who fathered the future Tsar Paul I. This biography reveals this extraordinary woman. Num Pages: 592 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JF; BGR; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 38. Weight in Grams: 432.
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Power, sex, and politics: the fascinating rule of one of Russia's most significant monarchs
Catherine the Great ruled Russia from 1762 until 1796. Famous for the legends circulated by political rivals about her sexual rapacity, some were true - though not the infamous rumour of her death by stallion. However, a conservative Russian court was shocked by her use of her sexuality as a political tool, as well as the number and age of her lovers.
Unhappily married to the Grand Duke Peter, a man who preferred ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099462347
SKU
V9780099462347
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Virginia Rounding
Virginia Rounding is the author of Les Grandes Horizontales (2003), is fluent in French and Russian (vital for the source material of her new book). She lives in London (EC1).
Reviews for Catherine The Great: Love, Sex, and Power
A great thumping triumph of a book.
Daily Telegraph
Enjoyable and perceptive study ... Rounding has read widely, and writes punctilious, professional history with a no-nonsense style and a respectful relish for the details that make the past come alive.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Sunday Telegraph
Rounding writes with enviable lucidity, and gives us the most ... Read more
Daily Telegraph
Enjoyable and perceptive study ... Rounding has read widely, and writes punctilious, professional history with a no-nonsense style and a respectful relish for the details that make the past come alive.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Sunday Telegraph
Rounding writes with enviable lucidity, and gives us the most ... Read more