British diplomats and Catherine II. Dialogue and confrontation

How did Catherine II come to power? What role did the British played in the preparation of the palace coup of 1762? Was the Russian Empress an English spy? Whose interests she defended in negotiations with British diplomacy on the prolongation of trade and defensive agreements, as well as “armed neutrality”? What strategies and tactics in the negotiation process with Catherine II and her closest associates N. I. Panin and G. A. Potemkin adhered to the ambassadors of Great Britain? How did diplomats combine their professional activities with intelligence? How objective were their characteristics of Russia and its political elite? Readers will find answers to these and many other questions in the proposed book, which is based on a secret correspondence of ambassadors with the head of the British Foreign Ministry. For historians, teachers and students of humanitarian universities, as well as all those interested in the history of Russian-British relations in the board of Catherine II