Five Empresses: Court Life in Eighteenth-Century Russia by Evgenii V. Anisimov

Five Empresses: Court Life in Eighteenth-Century Russia

Evgenii V. Anisimov

384 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative tense fast-paced
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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-...

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