A review by harveymcfly
Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner by Simon Sebag Montefiore

4.0

This was a long slog. I give it five stars for command of details and exhaustive research. I give 3 for not editing out details and exhausting documentation that made reading this like a chore. Redundancy ad nauseum. So I give it four. A student of Catherine the Great with a passion for Potemkin will appreciate the social, romantic, cultural, urban developmental, maritime and military history here. Every single bit of it is in here.