[PDF.11tj] Five Empresses: Court Life in Eighteenth-Century Russia

Five Empresses: Court Life in Eighteenth-Century Russia

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 | #1401834 in Books |  2004-11-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.21 x.88 x6.14l,1.62 | File type: PDF | 384 pages

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||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Soap Opera at Tsarskoye Selo|By M. A Newman|This could have been a better book than it is. While it is interesting to read anything that a Russian has written on his country's history (since it marks the reclamation of the past following 1991), this book drags on for far too long and would have been better if the author had demonstrated an understanding of the power politics o|From Booklist|Brimming with intrigue, scandal, mayhem, and murder, the drama of Russian court life is unrivaled by any contemporary soap opera. The eighteenth century was an especially fascinating era in the annal

From the untimely demise of the 52-year-old Peter the Great in 1725 to nearly the end of that century, the fate of the Russian empire would rest largely in the hands of five tsarinas. This book tells their stories. Peter's widow Catherine I (1725-27), an orphan and former laundress, would gain control of the ancestral throne, a victorious army, and formidable navy in a country that stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean. Next, Anna Ioannovna (1730-40), ch...

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