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

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

The Romanovs #2

Robert K. Massie

800 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced

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The story of one of the truly great female rulers in history by an award winning historian. The daughter of an impoverished aristocrat, Catherine was married aged 16 to Grand Duke Peter, heir to the throne of all the Russias, a feckless teenager...

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informative 96%
challenging 31%
inspiring 24%
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emotional 10%
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hopeful 6%
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sad 3%

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