TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rounding,Virginia
TI  - Catherine the Great: love, sex and power 
SN  - 0312328877 (alk. paper)
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - St. Martin's Press
KW  - Catherine
KW  - Empresses
KW  - Russia
KW  - Biography
KW  - History
KW  - Catherine II, 1762-1796
KW  - Kings and rulers
N1  - 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
ER  -