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Descrizione libro Softcover. Condizione: new. Reprint. One of the most colorful characters in modern history Catherine II of Russia began her life as a minor German princess until the childless Empress Elizabeth and Catherines own scheming mother married her off to the Grand Duke Peter of Russia at age sixteen By thirtythree she had overthrown her husband in a bloodless coup and established herself as Empress of the multinational Russian Empire the largest territorial political unit in modern historyPortrayed both as a political genius who restored to Russia the glory it had known in the days of Peter the Great and as a despotic foreign adventuress who usurped the Russian throne murdered her rivals and tyrannized her subjects she was by all accounts an extraordinary woman Catherine the Great the first popular biography of the empress based on contemporary scholarship provides a vivid portrait of Catherine as a mother a lover and above all an extremely savvy ruler Concentrating on her long reign 176296 John Alexander examines all aspects of Catherines life and career the brilliant political strategies by which she won the acceptance of a nationalistic elite her expansive foreign policy the domestic reforms with which she revamped the Russian military political structure and economy and of course her infamous love lifeBeginning with an account of the dramatic palace revolt by which Catherine unseated her husband and a background chapter describing the circumstances of her early childhood and marriage Alexander then proceeds chronologically through the thirtyfour years of her reign Presenting Catherine in more human terms than previous biographers have Alexander includes numerous quotations from her reminiscences and notes We learn for instance not only the names and number of her lovers but her understanding of what many considered a shocking licentiousness The trouble is she wrote that my heart would not willingly remain one hour without loveThe result of twenty years research by one of Americas leading narrative historians of modern Russia this truly impressive work offers a muchneeded balanced reappraisal of one of historys most scandalridden figures. Codice articolo DADAX0195061624
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