Weaving a tempestuous tapestry of passion and power in an atmosphere of barbaric splentor, dissolute sensuality, and danger, young Augusta Fredricka of Anhalt was transformed into the beautiful, ambitious Catherine the Great when summoned to wed one of the mad Romanovs, Grand Duke Peter, heir to the Russian throne.
Forced to find refuge from her half-witted, impotent husband in the arms of many lovers, and daring to bear one of them an illegitimate son, she lived in constant fear for her life over the bitter question of succession.
Here, in an age of high romance and glittering grandeur, is the sweeping drama of a brillian, enchanting beauty possessed by driving ambition and illitict desires- and her twenty momentous years spent mastering the arts of intrigue and guile before she emerged as Empress of All the Russias, Catherine the Great, the most spectacular woman of all time.
- Autor: Evelyn Anthony
- Kategoria: powieść historyczna
- Język: angielski
- ISBN: 9780722111833
- Data wydania: 1974-01-01
- Liczba stron: 208
- Ocena: 9,0
- Wydawnictwo: Sphere
