Catherine the Great
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Among the rulers of Russia, Empress Catherine II, or Catherine the Great (1729-1796), occupies a special place. The German by origin, who had no dynastic rights to the Russian throne, she captured him as a result of the coup and for thirty -four years autocratic and firmly ruled a huge empire.
The time of her reign is called the "Golden Age" of the Russian nobility. Two victorious wars with Turkey and one with Sweden, the accession of Crimea and the development of Novorossia, the sections of Poland, as a result of which the Orthodox Ukrainian lands became part of the Russian state - all these are also the brilliant achievements of the Golden Age "of Catherine.
But in the biography of the empress herself is a lot of puzzles. About many of them - the conspiracy of 1762 and the true role of various actors, the secret of the death of Emperor Peter III and the involvement of his wife, numerous novels of Catherine and her hidden marriage with Potemkin, her views on the burning problems of Russian reality and real policy on Peasant and other issues, correspondence with philosophers and relations with Masons - brightly and exciting, with the involvement of all the surviving (including archival) sources, the famous researcher of the Russian XVIII century Russian, Olga Eliseeva, tells in her new book.
3rd edition
The time of her reign is called the "Golden Age" of the Russian nobility. Two victorious wars with Turkey and one with Sweden, the accession of Crimea and the development of Novorossia, the sections of Poland, as a result of which the Orthodox Ukrainian lands became part of the Russian state - all these are also the brilliant achievements of the Golden Age "of Catherine.
But in the biography of the empress herself is a lot of puzzles. About many of them - the conspiracy of 1762 and the true role of various actors, the secret of the death of Emperor Peter III and the involvement of his wife, numerous novels of Catherine and her hidden marriage with Potemkin, her views on the burning problems of Russian reality and real policy on Peasant and other issues, correspondence with philosophers and relations with Masons - brightly and exciting, with the involvement of all the surviving (including archival) sources, the famous researcher of the Russian XVIII century Russian, Olga Eliseeva, tells in her new book.
3rd edition
Author:
Author:Eliseeva Olga Igorevna
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Series:
Series: Life of wonderful people
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:9785235040847
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