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Catherine the Great and Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Paperback, 2010)
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Antony and Cleopatra. Napoleon and Josephine. To these great love affairs that helped change history must be added the lesser-known, but just as influential couple: Catherine the Great of Russia and Grigory Potemkin. The name 'Potemkin' is best-known today for a battleship mutiny at the time of the Russian revolution, rather than as the one-eyed, fat, vain, autocratic lover of Empress Catherine, the only man she treated as an equal, who commanded her armies, helped her rule the country and develop the Russian empire. Potemkin's life is about power, lust and love, as enthralling a love story as any fiction. Born of a loveless marriage, he worked his way up through the ranks of the Russian army. He first met the Empress Catherine while he was on guard duty in St Petersburg. German-born, she was married at fourteen for dynastic reasons, but her marriage was never consummated. She took a procession of lovers, but showed the longest fidelity to Potemkin. The thousands of letters he and Catherine exchanged (often several times each day) are one of the sources of Simon Sebag Montifiore's biography. 'This well researched and highly ambitious biography has succeeded triumphantly in re-creating the life of an extraordinary man' Antony Beevor, Sunday TimesProduct Identifiers
PublisherOrion Publishing Group
ISBN-139780753818343
eBay Product ID (ePID)91500271
Product Key Features
Book TitleCatherine the Great and Potemkin: the Imperial Love Affair
Number of Pages640 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2010
TopicHistory
GenreBiographies & True Stories
TypeTextbook
AuthorSimon Sebag Montefiore
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height196 mm
Item Weight512 g
Item Width130 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorSimon Sebag Montefiore
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- 11 Nov, 2020
Catherine the Great and Potemkin
A very interesting and well researched book It will give me very many happy hours of readingVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
