Catherine the Great: Empress of Russia, Paperback

Ruthless and passionate, Catherine the Great is singularly responsible for amassing one of the most awe-inspiring collections of art in the world a...

The astonishing true story of how Catherine the Great joined forces with a Quaker doctor from Essex to spearhead a groundbreaking public health cam...

Reducere. A concise history of Russia from its beginnings in Kiev Rus through to the twenty-first century.

DescriptionRussia has recently marked one hundred years since the 1917 Russian Revolution and the overthrow of the Romanov Dynasty. Seventy-four ye...

Publisher: Ebury PublishingAuthor(s): Mark GaleottiNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 126 x 197 x 21Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Reducere. This first volume of the Cambridge History of Russia covers the period from early ('Kievan') Rus' to the start of Peter the Great's reign in 1689. ...

The second volume of The Cambridge History of Russia covers the imperial period (1689-1917). It encompasses political, economic, social, cultural, ...

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Reducere. "Impressive."THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLDSpanning 1800 years of Russia's history, people, poltics, and culture, Edward Rurtherford, author of the...

Using previously unpublished material from the Royal Archives and information in Russian, Danish and Finnish previously unavailable in English, thi...

Liberalism is a critically important topic in the contemporary world as liberal values and institutions are in retreat in countries where they seem...

Power, politics, and sexuality: the fascinating rule of one of Russia's most significant monarchsCatherine the Great ruled Russia from 1762 until 1...

The former Soviet empire spanned eleven time zones and contained half the world's forests; vast deposits of oil, gas, and coal; various ores; major...

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DescriptionCatherine the Great's letters present a vivid picture of Russia in a momentous age. They also offer a unique account of her personal dev...

Reducere. Learn how a Prussian princess grew up to be Russia's longest-ruling female leader Born in 1729, Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbs was never supposed ...

Reducere. Far away from the trendy cafes, designer boutiques, and political protests and crackdowns in Moscow, the real Russia exists.Midnight in Siberia chr...

A life of Matilda--empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages Matilda was a daughter, wife, and m...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Written by NPR's former Moscow bureau chief, Midnight in Siberia captures an overlooked, idiosyncratic Russia in the age of Putin.

Catherine is a powerful female voice seeking her place within her family, among friends, in the cities she lives in, and constructing her unique id...

Reducere. From the acclaimed author of Grandes Horizontales comes a book that the Washington Post calls "a vivid portrait of a sensual and intellectual woman...

The extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most powerful women in history.

The extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most powerful women in history.

The epic bestselling biography of Catherine the Great and Prince Potemkin, her outrageous lover and co-rulerPublisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s)...

Publisher: Olympia PublishersAuthor(s): Catherine M. BeckNumber of pages: 37Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 155 x 8Cover type: Paperback / ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emerita Ruth Pritchard (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA) DawsonIllustration(s): 60 bw i...

The bestselling author and historian Lisa Hilton picks up the mythical 'City of Ladies' where the medieval writer Christine de Pisan left off, cont...

Publisher: Strident Publishing LimitedAuthor(s): Kirkland CicconeNumber of pages: 240Collection: Castlecrankie ChroniclesPublication date: 2014Dime...

Reducere. Born a princess of Schleswig-Holstein in 1858, Empress Augusta Victoria, known in the family as 'Dona', was marked out from early childhood as a po...

In this touching saga a young woman from the slums of 1930s Ireland sets out for Liverpool - and dreams of a life on the ocean waves working on the...

Publisher: Webster's Digital ServicesAuthor(s): Victoria HockfieldIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 88Publication dat...

Reducere. Oscar Hijuelos vividly brings to life the joys, desires, and disappointment of American life witnessed through the experience of a formerly prosper...

Reducere. This memoir by empress Farah Pahlavi looks back on her reign over an Iran so modern it is unrecognizable today--written just a few years before the...

Out of the thrilling and tempestuous eighteenth century comes the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, a sovereign of extraordinary str...

The Empress is a dazzling reimagining of the courtship between one ofhistory's most iconic and beloved couples: Sisi and Franz of Austria.Publisher...

In "the Trump satire we've been waiting for" (The Washington Post), award-winning and bestselling author of Thank You for Smoking delivers a hilari...

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Reducere. Crown Princess Ioanna of Xytae has kept her truthsayer blessing a secret for twenty years. In any other nation, her powerful magic would be cause f...

Reducere. DescriptionAn extraordinary book that combines travel- and history-writing with brilliant storytelling to give us a portrait of Mumtaz Mahal, in wh...

Reducere. With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo's The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a tightly and lushly...

Reducere. Pasari de ceata - pentru-o mana de orez, din somnul cui vin? Kiri no tori - for a handful of rice grains from whose dream they come? Editie bilingv...

Reducere. When the British Arean Company founded its Martian colony, it welcomed any settlers it could get. Outcasts, misfits, and dreamers emigrated in drov...

Reducere. Empress Alexandra Romanov - the last empress of Russia, wife of Tsar Nicholas II, and now a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church - chose Countess S...

Less than a decade after Queen Elizabeth I, a Muslim woman ruled an empire more than twenty- five times the size of Elizabethan England and vastly ...

The sensational erotic memoir that shocked the world, now a Serpent's Tail Classic.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Catherine MilletNumber of...

About the AuthorKenneth Atkinson is a professor of history at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. The author of several books, he is re...

The extraordinary story of a slave-girl who rose from concubine to become the Ottoman Empire's only queen.