Catherine the Great : love, sex and power /
Rounding, Virginia.
Catherine the Great : love, sex and power / Virginia Rounding. - 1st U.S. ed. - New York : St. Martin's Press, 2007. - xxv, 566 p. : col. ill., col. ports. ; 25 cm.
Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 512-552) and index.
From Feudal Anthill to the Court of Russia -- Engagement and wedding -- Early married life -- Catherine grows up -- Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams and Stanislas Poniatowski -- Empress of all the Russias -- Murder, coronation and conspiracy -- Catherine sets to work -- Laws, smallpox and war -- The heroic Orlov -- Confusion and unrest -- Passion and pretenders -- New lovers and a new daughter-in-law -- Grandsons and other acquisitions -- The empress and the emperor -- The failures of physicians -- Convalescence and recovery -- The great Crimean Voyage, and 'proverbs' in Petersburg -- The beginning of the end -- Last years -- Death and burial.
0312328877 (alk. paper) 9780312328870 (alk. paper)
2006047084
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796.
Empresses--Russia--Biography.
Russia--History--Catherine II, 1762-1796.
Russia--Kings and rulers--Biography.
Catherine the Great : love, sex and power / Virginia Rounding. - 1st U.S. ed. - New York : St. Martin's Press, 2007. - xxv, 566 p. : col. ill., col. ports. ; 25 cm.
Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 512-552) and index.
From Feudal Anthill to the Court of Russia -- Engagement and wedding -- Early married life -- Catherine grows up -- Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams and Stanislas Poniatowski -- Empress of all the Russias -- Murder, coronation and conspiracy -- Catherine sets to work -- Laws, smallpox and war -- The heroic Orlov -- Confusion and unrest -- Passion and pretenders -- New lovers and a new daughter-in-law -- Grandsons and other acquisitions -- The empress and the emperor -- The failures of physicians -- Convalescence and recovery -- The great Crimean Voyage, and 'proverbs' in Petersburg -- The beginning of the end -- Last years -- Death and burial.
0312328877 (alk. paper) 9780312328870 (alk. paper)
2006047084
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796.
Empresses--Russia--Biography.
Russia--History--Catherine II, 1762-1796.
Russia--Kings and rulers--Biography.