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│ Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman │
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│ │ | RELEASE DATE │ [11-15-11] LANGUAGE │ ENGLiSH | │ │
│ │ : TYPE │ MOBi iSBN │ 158836044X : │ │
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[ ■ ] BOOKMARKED AUTHOR │ ROBERT K. MASSiE
[ ■ ] PAGiNATED TYPE │ COMPUTERS, MANAGEMENT
[ ■ ] VECTOR YEAR │ 2011
[ ■ ] COVER PAGES │ 656
[ ■ ] SEARCHABLE MD5 │ cfc5ab508c6f1d2017f0ee7cfd42d88d
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Once upon a time, there was a minor German princess named Sophia.
She went on to become the world's richest and most powerful woman,
ruler of its then-largest empire, revered as "Catherine the Great."
Her accomplishments and shortcomings as an autocrat and a woman make
for a remarkable saga, and though many have tried, there may be no
better author to take on the daunting task of chronicling than
Robert K. Massie, a seasoned biographer of the 400-year Romanov
dynasty, most notably with Peter the Great: His Life and World, which
won a 1981 Pulitzer Prize.
Massie situates Catherine's early life and three-decade reign amidst
the tumult of the European Enlightenment, enriching his own narrative
with telling excerpts of her letters and rich discussions of her
political environment and personal motivations. The result is an
utterly memorable book, a towering accomplishment, one of the
year's best in any genre
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