Catherine the Great: A Revealing History of the Ruthless and Charming Empress and Her Absolute Power - Softcover

Buch 49 von 51: Profiles In Power

Dixon, Simon

 
9780060786281: Catherine the Great: A Revealing History of the Ruthless and Charming Empress and Her Absolute Power
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0060786280 ISBN 13: 9780060786281
Verlag: Ecco, 2010

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Admired for her achievements and satirized for her personal life, Catherine the Great was one of the most celebrated monarchs in history, turning eighteenth-century Russia into arguably the largest and most powerful state since the fall of the Roman Empire. She promoted radical political ideas while emphasizing moderation in government. She could be ruthless when necessary, but she charmed everyone she met, joking at private dinner parties in the Hermitage, which she had built for her own use. Determined to endear herself to the Russians, she made religious devotions in which she never believed.

Intimate and revealing, Catherine the Great examines the lifelong friendships that sustained the empress throughout her personal life and places her within the context of the royal court: its politics, its flourishing literature and the very culture that became central to her exercise of absolute power.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Simon Dixon is Sir Bernard Pares Professor of Russian History at University College London.

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Admired for her achievements and satirized for her personal life, Catherine the Great was one of the most celebrated monarchs in history, turning eighteenth-century Russia into arguably the largest and most powerful state since the fall of the Roman Empire. She promoted radical political ideas while emphasizing moderation in government. She could be ruthless when necessary, but she charmed everyone she met, joking at private dinner parties in the Hermitage, which she had built for her own use. Determined to endear herself to the Russians, she made religious devotions in which she never believed.

Intimate and revealing, Catherine the Great examines the lifelong friendships that sustained the empress throughout her personal life and places her within the context of the royal court: its politics, its flourishing literature and the very culture that became central to her exercise of absolute power.

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Verlag
Ecco
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0060786280
ISBN 13 
9780060786281
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Anzahl der Seiten
432
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