Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

The Romanovs #2

Robert K. Massie

625 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced

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Pulitzer Prize winner Massie offers the tale of a princess who went to Russia at 14 and became one of the most powerful women in history. Born into minor German nobility, she transformed herself into an empress by sheer determination. Possessing a...

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