Author: ALEXANDER, JOHN T.
Title: Catherine the Great: Life and Legend
Description: Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1989. (ISBN: 0195052366). Hardcover. stamp on the catalogue page. Empress of the vast Russian Empire by the age of 33, Catherine's private and public life generated tremendous controversy, and she has been portrayed variously as a political genius, a despotic foreign adventuress, a tyrant, and a nymphomaniac. John Alexander's detailed research draws on little-known sources, including Catherine's love notes, to produce a balanced appraisal of this remarkable woman throughout the whole of her long reign. Very Good/Good.

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