Catherine the Great and Potemkin
The Imperial Love Affair
(Sprache: Englisch)
The epic bestselling biography of Catherine the Great and Prince Potemkin, her outrageous lover and co-ruler - by bestselling historian, Simon Sebag Montefiore
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The epic bestselling biography of Catherine the Great and Prince Potemkin, her outrageous lover and co-ruler - by bestselling historian, Simon Sebag Montefiore
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'One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra ... Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair' EconomistIt was history's most successful political partnership - as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious passion and imperial ambition. Prince Potemkin - wildly flamboyant and sublimely talented - was the love of her life and her co-ruler.
Together they seized Ukraine and Crimea, defining the Russian empire to this day. Their affair was so tumultuous that they negotiated an arrangement to share power, leaving Potemkin free to love his beautiful nieces, and Catherine her young male favourites. But these 'twin souls' never stopped loving each other.
Drawing on their intimate letters and vast research, Simon Sebag Montefiore's enthralling, widely acclaimed biography restores these imperial partners to their rightful place as titans of their age.
Autoren-Porträt von Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore is the internationally bestselling author of a number of prize-winning books that have been published in forty-eight languages. CATHERINE THE GREAT & POTEMKIN was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; STALIN: THE COURT OF THE RED TSAR won the BBA History Book of the Year Prize; YOUNG STALIN won the Costa Biography Award, the LA Times Book Prize for Biography and the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique; JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY won the JBC Book of the Year Prize and the Wenjin Book Prize in China; THE ROMANOVS: 1613-1918 won the Lupicaia del Terriccio Book Prize. He is the author of the Moscow Trilogy of novels: SASHENKA, RED SKY AT NOON and ONE NIGHT IN WINTER, which won the Political Fiction Book of the Year Award. He is also the author of WRITTEN IN HISTORY: LETTERS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD and the forthcoming VOICES OF HISTORY: SPEECHES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- 2016, 640 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,7 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Orion Publishing Group
- ISBN-10: 1780228341
- ISBN-13: 9781780228341
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.01.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
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One of the great love stories of history in a league with Napoleon and Josephine and Antony and Cleopatra ... Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair THE ECONOMIST
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