Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman /: portrait of a woman. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert K. Massie.
• Other Names: Massie, Robert K, 1929-2019
• Contents: A German princess -- Sophia's childhood -- Summoned to Russia -- Frederick II and the journey to Russia -- Empress Elizabeth -- The making of a grand duke -- Meeting Elizabeth and Peter -- Pneumonia -- Intercepted letters -- Conversion and betrothal -- A pilgrimage to Kiev and transvestite balls -- Smallpox -- Marriage -- Johanna goes home -- A painful marriage -- The Zhukova affair -- Peepholes -- A watchdog -- "He was not a king" -- In the bedroom -- A house collapses -- Summer pleasures -- Dismissals at court -- Moscow and the country -- Choglokov makes an enemy and Peter survives a plot -- A bath before easter and a coachman's whip -- Oysters and an actor -- Reading, dancing, and a betrayal -- Seduction, motherhood, and confrontation -- Saltykov -- The birth of the heir -- Retaliation -- The English ambassador -- A diplomatic earthquake -- Poniatowski -- A dead rat, an absent lover, and a risky proposal -- Catherine challenges Brockdorff; she gives a party -- Apraksin's retreat -- Catherine's daughter -- The fall of Bestuzhev -- A gamble -- Confrontation -- A ménage à quatre -- "The time has come!" -- Panin, Orlov, and Elizabeth's death -- The brief reign of Peter III -- "Dura!" -- "We ourselves know not what we did" -- Empress of Russia -- Coronation -- The government and the church -- Serfdom -- "Madame Orlov could never be empress of Russia" -- The death of Ivan VI -- Catherine and the enlightenment -- The Nakaz -- "All free estates of the realm" -- "The king we have made" -- The first partition of Poland and the first Turkish war -- Doctors, smallpox, and plague -- The return of "Peter the Third" -- Vasilchikov -- Catherine and Potemkin : passion -- Potemkin ascending -- Catherine and Potemkin : separation -- New relationships -- Favorites -- "My name is Catherine the Second" -- Catherine, Paul, and Natalia -- Paul, Maria, and the succession -- Potemkin : builder and diplomat -- Crimean journey and "Potemkin villages" -- The second Turkish war and the death of Potemkin -- Art, architecture, and the bronze horseman -- "They are capable of hanging their king from a lamppost!" -- Dissent in Russia, final partition of Poland -- Twilight -- The death of Catherine the Great.
• Publisher Details: London : Head of Zeus Ltd
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 947.063092 947/.063092; Empresses -- Russia -- Biography; Impératrices -- Russie -- Biographies; HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern; HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics; HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Empresses; Kings and rulers; Russia -- Kings and rulers -- Biography; Russia; Electronic books; Electronic books; Biographies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781908800947; 1908800941
• Related ISBNs: 9781908800008; 1908800003
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.