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Catherine The Great: Love Sex and Power

Categorie	Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer	#287554
Titel	Catherine The Great: Love Sex and Power
Auteur	Rounding, Virginia
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Hutchinson
Jaar van uitgave	2006
ISBN10	0091799929
ISBN13	9780091799922
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	Many legends have grown up about the sexual rapacity of Catherine the Great. While it is true that she shocked the Russian court with the number and age of her lovers, there is no truth in the rumour of her death by stallion. Unhappily married to the Grand Duke Peter, a man who preferred to play with his toy soldiers in the bedroom, they failed to produce an heir, and Catherine turned her attentions to a certain Sergey Saltykov who fathered the future Tsar Paul I. Six months into the reign of Peter III, Catherine, supported by the Imperial Guard, staged a successful coup against her husband and became Empress. It was her ambition to transform a vast but semi-barbaric country with the cultural and political reforms of Enlightenment Europe. In this timely and fascinating biography, Virginia ... (Lees verder)Rounding reveals an extraordinary woman in all her complexity.
Pagina's	566
Conditie	Goed
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