Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman - Robert K. Massie
She might have lived centuries
earlier than us but one thing you really need to know about Catherine
the Great is her history still elongating on our times as if she was
living just a couple of decades of ago of which isn’t that way. third majority of us even if we weren’t
following history that much is that she is quite popular as you have
somehow read about her on the history books of her at school or through
individual research about her. To those who were more familiar with the
name but never knew who she was and famous for, then consider yourself
to be lucky as I will tell just the way you will liberated to know what
is it with her larger than life character by sticking right here on this
very blog. Catherine the Great was basically the Empress of Russia, who
by the way was the most renowned and the longest-ruling female leader
of Russia, reigning from 9 July 1762 until her death on 17
November 1796. And to blog a bit lengthy about her, with me here have
got one of her compelling book about her life and times titled Catherine the Great:
Portrait of a Woman which was written by Robert K. Massie who won
numerous titles for the remarkable art of writing. Now again the author
in here has written a epic masterpiece of narrative biography, the
extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to
Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable,
powerful, and captivating women in history.
From
the inception the book takes a humbling look at how she comes from as
it enlightens us as we learn she was born into a minor noble family,
Catherine transformed herself into Empress of Russia by sheer
determination. Possessing a brilliant mind and an insatiable curiosity
as a young woman, she devoured the works of Enlightenment philosophers
and, when she reached the throne, attempted to use their principles to
guide her rule of the vast and backward Russian empire. She knew or
corresponded with the preeminent historical figures of her time:
Voltaire, Diderot, Frederick the Great, Empress Maria Theresa of
Austria, Marie Antoinette, and, surprisingly, the American naval hero,
John Paul Jones. The book even introduces us from the earliest stages
when she was staging the rulership after the death of her husband Peter
III of Russia till the day she won the victory of being throned as the
majesty of Russia for 34 years and 131 days.
The
biography in general perspective is massively spellbound and still
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