Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress — who reigned from 1762 to ...
Robert K. Massie, Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (New York: Random House, 2011), 656 pp., $35.00. THE SUBTITLE of Robert K. Massie’s biography announces the book’s keynote: it is to be a ...
The history of the formation of the personality of the Catherine the Great from the moment of her arrival in Russia as the bride of Grand Duke Peter Fyodorovich to her ascension to the Russian throne.