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From the moment the fourteen-year-old Princess Sophia of Anhalt-Zerbst agreed to marry the heir to the Russian throne, she was mired in a quicksand of intrigue. Precociously intelligent, self-confident, and attractive but with a stubborn, wayward streak, Sophia withstood a degree of emotional battering that would have broken a weaker spirit until at last she emerged, triumphant over her many enemies, as Empress Catherine II of Russia.

Her achievements as empress were prodigious. She brought vast new lands under Russian rule. She raised the prestige of Russia in Europe. She began the process of imposing legal and political order on the chaos she inherited...

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Overview

From the moment the fourteen-year-old Princess Sophia of Anhalt-Zerbst agreed to marry the heir to the Russian throne, she was mired in a quicksand of intrigue. Precociously intelligent, self-confident, and attractive but with a stubborn, wayward streak, Sophia withstood a degree of emotional battering that would have broken a weaker spirit until at last she emerged, triumphant over her many enemies, as Empress Catherine II of Russia.

Her achievements as empress were prodigious. She brought vast new lands under Russian rule. She raised the prestige of Russia in Europe. She began the process of imposing legal and political order on the chaos she inherited from her predecessors. Yet few historical figures have been so enthusiastically vilified as Catherine the Great. Whispers that she had ordered her husband's murder grew to murmurs that she was an immoral woman and finally to shouts that she was a depraved, lust-crazed nymphomaniac. With deft mastery of historical narrative and an unsurpassed ability to make the past live again, Carolly Erickson uncovers the real woman behind the tarnished image—an indomitable, feisty, often visionary ruler who, in an age of caveats and constraints, blithely went her own way.

Great Catherine reveals the complexities of this great ruler's nature, her craving for love, her insecurities, the inevitable sorrows and disappointments of a strong empress who dared not share her power with any man yet longed to be led and guided by a loving consort. Great Catherine is a fresh portrait of an infamous historical figure, one that reveals how Catherine's flawed triumph guaranteed her posthumous fame and enhanced the might and renown of Russia for generations to come.

This popular biography of the renowned Russian empress puts its emphasis not on her alleged personal immorality, but rather on the highly capable and intelligent ruler's achievements in bringing the Russian empire closer to European standards of order, economic abundance, and enlightened social welfare. 8-page insert.

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To her critics, Catherine the Great (1729-96), Empress of Russia, was an imperialist who eradicated Polish sovereignty and waged financially draining wars, an absolutist ruler who brought back the defunct secret police, an insatiable sexual adventuress and a possible accomplice in the murder of her husband Peter III. Historian and biographer Erickson ( Blood Mary ), in this sympathetic, vibrant portrait, presents a shrewd, headstrong, cultivated woman, a political reformer and supporter of education and the arts, who codified laws, built schools and asserted her independece in a land where women had low status. Born Sophie Augusta Fredericka, princess of a tiny German state, Catherine (the baptismal name she took upon joining the Russian Orthodox Church) rightly feared her tyrannical, drunken husband who wanted to dethrone her and replace her with his mistress. Catherine's menage a trois with Gregory Potemkin, her chief deputy, and her young Polish secretary, Peter Zavadovsky, elicited an avalanche of censure and gossip. Drawing on Catherine's memoirs and letters, Erickson has fashioned an engrossing, astonishingly vivid, if not always convincing portrait. (June)
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Sophie Augusta Fredericka, an obscure German princess from Anhalt-Zerbst, married the heir to the Russian Empire and ended up ruling by herself for 34 years. Before she seized power, she survived the treacherous Russian court by her wits, diligently using her time to study the Russian language and the works of Voltaire, Montesquieu, Tacitus, and Diderot. Erickson (To the Scaffold: The Life of Marie Antoinette, LJ 3/1/91) has painted a fascinating picture of an extraordinary woman. Intellectually, Catherine wanted to be an enlightened, Western-style ruler; her subjects turned her into a benevolent despot. She drafted an impressive code of laws, reformed and reorganized the government of her vast empire, and generally improved the economic conditions of her people. She took an important, often belligerent role in foreign relations and was notorious for her liaisons with various men of her court. This sympathetic but balanced and detailed account is based in part on several autobiographies that the empress herself wrote. Recommended for most collections.-Katharine Galloway Garstka, Intergraph Corp., Huntsville, Ala.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312135034
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date: 8/28/1995
  • Edition description: REV
  • Edition number: 3
  • Pages: 400
  • Sales rank: 386,304
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.23 (h) x 1.04 (d)

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Carolly Erickson received her Ph.D. in medieval history from Columbia University. She is the author of The First Elizabeth, Great Harry, Alexandra, and Bloody Mary, among others. She lives in Hawaii.

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