Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Robert K. Massie tells the story of the obscure German princess who became Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia. The biography follows her rise to power and her thirty-four-year reign, through domestic rebellion, foreign wars and the upheaval of the French Revolution, along with the family, ministers, generals and lovers around her.