TY  - BOOK
AU  - Massie,Robert K.
TI  - Catherine the Great: portrait of a woman 
SN  - 0679456724 (acidfree paper)
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Catherine
KW  - Empresses
KW  - Russia
KW  - Biography
KW  - History
KW  - Catherine II, 1762-1796
KW  - Kings and rulers
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [577]-579) and index; A German princess -- A painful marriage -- Seduction, Motherhood, and confrontation -- "The time has come!" -- Empress of Russia -- Potemkin and favoritism -- "My name is Catherine the Second"
N2  - Presents a reconstruction of the eighteenth-century empress's life that covers her efforts to engage Russia in the cultural life of Europe, her creation of the Hermitage, and her numerous scandal-free romantic affairs
ER  -