Grigory Potemkin
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He was called a genius and a usurper, a brilliant administrator and a deceiver, the creator of the Potemkin villages. Catherine II wrote about him as a “real nobleman”, “a great man”, who did not fulfill half the conceived.
The first domestic scientific biography of the brightest prince of the Potemkin-Tauride, secret husband of the Empress was created on the basis of many years of archival searches of the author. She is denounced from analogues a deep disclosure of the era, orientation on the document, and not on historical jokes. Bright style.
Having plunged on the pages of the book into the brilliant world of the Golden Age, Catherine the Great, witnessing the court intrigues and secret diplomatic clashes that capture love stories and bloody battles of the Second Russian-Turkish war, the reader will be able to conclude about who was who was who was “The magnificent Prince of Taurida”, an evil genius, as his enemies called him, or a great state husband
The first domestic scientific biography of the brightest prince of the Potemkin-Tauride, secret husband of the Empress was created on the basis of many years of archival searches of the author. She is denounced from analogues a deep disclosure of the era, orientation on the document, and not on historical jokes. Bright style.
Having plunged on the pages of the book into the brilliant world of the Golden Age, Catherine the Great, witnessing the court intrigues and secret diplomatic clashes that capture love stories and bloody battles of the Second Russian-Turkish war, the reader will be able to conclude about who was who was who was “The magnificent Prince of Taurida”, an evil genius, as his enemies called him, or a great state husband
Author:
Author:Eliseeva Olga Igorevna
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Modern Literature
Series:
Series: Life of wonderful people. Biographies series
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-235-03934-6
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