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Five Empresses : Court Life in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Five Empresses Court Life in EighteenthCentury Russia
Author: Evgenii V. Anisimov
From the untimely demise of the 52-year-old Peter the Great in 1725 to nearly the end of that century, the fate of the Russian empire would rest largely in the hands of five tsarinas. This book tells their stories. Peter's widow Catherine I (1725-27), an orphan and former laundress, would gain control of the ancestral throne, a victorious army, ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780275984649
ISBN-10: 0275984648
Publication Date: 11/30/2004
Pages: 384
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Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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