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Catherine the Great portrait of a woman

Presents a reconstruction of the eighteenth-century empress's life that covers her efforts to engage Russia in the cultural life of Europe, her creation of the Hermitage, and her numerous scandal-free romantic affairs.

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Main Author:	Massie, Robert K., 1929-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Random House, c2011.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Catherine > II, > Empress of Russia, > 1729-1796. Empresses > Russia > Biography. Russia > Kings and rulers > Biography. Russia > History > Catherine II, 1762-1796.
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Summary:	Presents a reconstruction of the eighteenth-century empress's life that covers her efforts to engage Russia in the cultural life of Europe, her creation of the Hermitage, and her numerous scandal-free romantic affairs.
Physical Description:	xiii, 625 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [577]-579) and index.
ISBN:	9780679456728 (acid-free paper) 0679456724 (acid-free paper) 9781588360441 (ebook) 158836044X (ebook) 9780345408778 (pbk.)
Author Notes:	Robert Kinloch Massie III (1929-) is an American historian, author, Pulitzer Prize recipient. He has devoted much of his career to studying the House of Romanov, Russia's royal family from 1613-1917. Massie was born in Lexington, Kentucky. He spent much of his youth in Nashville, Tennessee and currently resides in the village of Irvington, New York. He studied United States and modern European history at Yale and Oxford University, respectively, on a Rhodes Scholarship. Massie went to work as a journalist for Newsweek from 1959 to 1962 and then took a position at the Saturday Evening Post. In 1969 he wrote and published his breakthrough book, Nicholas and Alexandra. Massie was the president of the Authors Guild from 1987 to 1991, and he still serves as a council member. While president of the Guild, he famously called on authors to boycott any store refusing to carry Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. His title Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. (Bowker Author Biography)