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the life of Potemkin

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"Prince Grigory Potemkin was Catherine the Great's lover, secret husband, and partner in ruling the Russian Empire. Their affair was so tumultuous, they negotiated an arrangement that allowed them to share power while he was free to love his beautiful nieces, and Catherine, her favorites. But they never stopped loving each other. Their enduring and passionate relationship remains one of history's most remarkable love affairs.".

"Potemkin shone as an outstandingly gifted statesman, winning the Crimea, founding the Black Sea Fleet, reforming the Cossacks, planning new cities like Sebastopol and Odessa, and making Russia a Near Eastern power - achievements in war and peace that emulated his hero, Peter the Great." "He embodied the strengths and weaknesses of Russia itself - volatile, ebullient, handsome, sensual, and always astonishing. His bizarre magnificence enchanted and scandalized Europe, yet he disdained his own success.".

"After five years' new research in archives from Petersburg to Odessa, Sebag Montefiore shows how Potemkin and Catherine, with their younger loves, created their own "family." He blazingly brings to life Potemkin's loving partnership with Catherine and restores him to his place as a colossus of the eighteenth century. When he died, Catherine was heartbroken. She said there could never be another Potemkin."--BOOK JACKET.

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Thomas Dunne Books
Language
English
Pages
634

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Catherine the Great and Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair
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Edition Notes

Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [593]-614) and index.

Published in
New York
Other Titles
Life of Potemkin

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
947/.063/092, B
Library of Congress
DK169.P8 S4 2001, DK169.P8 S4 2000, DK169.P8S4 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 634 p., [24] p. of plates :
Number of pages
634

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24713157M
Internet Archive
princeofprincesl00mont
ISBN 10
0312278152
LCCN
2001042382
OCLC/WorldCat
47243937

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