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Catherine the Great by Simon Dixon (2010, Trade Paperback)

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Authors : Dixon, Simon. Catherine the Great. Title : Catherine the Great.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100060786280

ISBN-139780060786281

eBay Product ID (ePID)74247869

Product Key Features

Book TitleCatherine the Great

Number of Pages464 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicRoyalty, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Military / World War II, Historical

Publication Year2010

GenreBiography & Autobiography, History

AuthorSimon Dixon

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight18.8 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Like Catherine herself, Simon Dixon's new biography is attractive, engaging, and very intelligent. It wears its scholarship lightly, too, but established fans of the Russian empress will find plenty of new material and those who are meeting her for the first time will be dazzled." -- Catherine Merridale, author of Ivan's War and Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia "There is lots new in this superb biography . . . [Dixon] manages to be scholarly, refreshing, commonsensical and compelling, vividly portraying the charismatic Empress and her times." -- Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Sashenka and Young Stalin, Like Catherine herself, Simon Dixon's new biography is attractive, engaging, and very intelligent. It wears its scholarship lightly, too, but established fans of the Russian empress will find plenty of new material and those who are meeting her for the first time will be dazzled., There is lots new in this superb biography . . . [Dixon] manages to be scholarly, refreshing, commonsensical and compelling, vividly portraying the charismatic Empress and her times.

Dewey Decimal947.063092

SynopsisAdmired for her achievements and satirized for her personal life, Catherine the Great was one of the most celebrated monarchs in history, turning eighteenth-century Russia into arguably the largest and most powerful state since the fall of the Roman Empire. She promoted radical political ideas while emphasizing moderation in government. She could be ruthless when necessary, but she charmed everyone she met, joking at private dinner parties in the Hermitage, which she had built for her own use. Determined to endear herself to the Russians, she made religious devotions in which she never believed. Intimate and revealing, Catherine the Great examines the lifelong friendships that sustained the empress throughout her personal life and places her within the context of the royal court: its politics, its flourishing literature and the very culture that became central to her exercise of absolute power.