Catherine the Great and the Culture of Celebrity in the Eighteenth Century by Brian Cowan, Beat Kümin

Catherine the Great and the Culture of Celebrity in the Eighteenth Century

Brian Cowan, Beat Kümin

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This book presents long neglected material evidence of the tsarina's fantasy-inducing fame, examines the 1762 coup as the indispensable story that first constructed her distant public image, and explains how the themes of enlightenment, luxury con...

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