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200 10$aCatherine the Great$b[electronic resource] $elife and legend /$fJohn T. Alexander
210   $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1989
215   $a1 online resource (457 p.)
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300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-19-506162-4 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $apt. 1. Catherine's youth and her accession to the throne -- pt. 2. The crises of mid-life -- pt. 3. An aging empress.
330   $aOne of the most colorful characters in modern history, Catherine II of Russia began her life as a minor German princess, until the childless Empress Elizabeth and Catherine's own scheming mother married her off to the Grand Duke Peter of Russia at age sixteen. By thirty-three, she had overthrown her husband in a bloodless coup and established herself as Empress of the multinational Russian Empire, the largest territorial political unit in modern history. Portrayed both as a political genius who restored to Russia the glory it had known in the days of Peter the Great and as a despotic foreign a
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607   $aRussia$xHistory$yCatherine II, 1762-1796
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