Catherine: Inside the Heart and Mind of a Great Monarch (The Volga Flows Forever)

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The personal and professional triumphs and tribulations of Catherine the Great are retold by Sigrid Weidenweber, whose research into the life of Catherine reveals a new perspective on Catherine, from the inside out. Sigrid portrays with heartfeld understanding what it was like to have been such a major European political and military, social and cultural figure during the eighteenth century.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 533 pages

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