Alexander, John T - Catherine The Great - Life And Legend

Oxford University Press, 1989, 2nd impression. Cloth, dj, F/F. xiv+418pp, 24pp b/w plates, b/w maps, index, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Hardback with dustjacket. ISBN: 0195052366 ¶ Biography of Catherine II of Russia, who began life as a monor German noble, but ended up, after overthrowing her husband Peter III of Russia in 1757, as Ruler of the largest signle territorial empire in history.