Ebook {Epub PDF} Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie

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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman. Catherine the Great.: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the. Robert K. Massie brings an eternally fascinating woman together with her family, friends, ministers, generals, lovers and enemies - vividly and triumphantly to life. History offers few stories richer than that of Catherine the Great. Robert K. Massie constructed his biography of Catherine the Great relying heavily on material from her memoirs (now published by Random House under the title The Memoirs of Catherine the Great), which provided him with rare, honest views of an eighteenth century royal's life. These memoirs make for rewarding reading in their own right and are vastly supplemented by the dramas, letters.

Paperback. $ Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie () Robert K. Massie. out of 5 stars Hardcover. $ The Memoirs of Catherine the Great (Modern Library Classics) Catherine the Great. At a heft befitting its subject, his long-awaited “Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman” is a consistently nimble and buoyant performance, defying what might in a lesser writer’s hands. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie Catherine II (born Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst; 2 May – 17 November ), most commonly known as Catherine the Great, was Empress of Russia from until —the country's longest-ruling female leader.