A Brief Biography of Catherine the Great of Russia (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Originally published in 1868 as a portion of the author’s larger “World-Noted Women,” this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 30 pages, describes the life and reign of Russian empress Catherine II (also known as Catherine the Great).Sample passage:But although these intentions of Peter III were neither executed nor known in their full extent to Catherine, their scope was sufficiently suspected to render her eager to frame some plan by which she might take advantage of the animosity they would generate against her husband, and the interest they would inspire towards herself and son, so as to effect a decided movement in her favor. Living retired at the palace of Peterhof, she had leisure not only to devise schemes and conspiracies, but to replace Poniatowsky by a new favorite—Gregory Orloff. This young officer was not only a gallant peculiarly suited to the taste of the imperial she-libertine, but he was a valuable confederate in the plot that Catherine was now designing in combination with the Princess Daschkoff; whose spirit of intrigue and general cleverness rendered her a most active assistant in the secret project for dethroning Peter III, and causing Catherine to be constituted empress in his stead.About the author:Mary Cowden Clarke (1809-1898) was an English author. Other works include “Concordance to Shakespeare,” “The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines,” and “Florence Nightingale.”