Catherine II. The path to power

The path to the throne is the road that every sovereign has to go. The more thorny, the more bumps on it, the more experienced the coming ruler will become. Catherine II, rightfully called the Great, in the days of reign loved to look back at the times of her youth. As if she said to herself: "Everything that is happening today, in any comparison with the difficulties that were experienced yesterday. Victory awaits me! "
The book of the famous historian and writer O.I. Eliseeva talks about 17 tragic years: from the arrival of the young Princess of Sofia Augusta Frederica to Russia before her entry into the throne. They swept the reign of Elizabeth Petrovna, and the short rule of Peter III, who ended with the coup and the death of the husband of the main character. Readers have to learn many palace secrets, close attention to which can shake the established stereotypes. Is it so stupid was a "cheerful Elizabeth". Is her nephew Peter Fedorovich mediocre? Didn"t the Grand Duke Set love each other? Is Catherine herself in the death of the overthrown spouse to be to blame? The fascinating manner of narrative does not exclude a purely source approach to documents, on the basis of which the reader is given the right to draw his own conclusions