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020 $a0875803245 (cloth : alk. paper)
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100 0 $aCatherine$bII,$cEmpress of Russia,$d1729-1796.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80046091
240 10 $aCorrespondence.$kSelections.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003058008
245 10 $aLove & conquest :$bpersonal correspondence of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigory Potemkin /$cedited and translated by Douglas Smith.
246 3 $aLove and conquest
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aDeKalb :$bNorthern Illinois University Press,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $aliv, 421 pages :$billustrations, portraits ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 00 $tIntroduction - Catherine the Great, Prince Grigory Potemkin, and their correspondence -- $g1.$tArdent zeal, sincere confessions - 1769-1774 -- $g2.$tLovers - 1774-1775 -- $g3.$tBreaking up - 1776 -- $g4.$tPartners - 1777-1781 -- $g5.$tAnnexing the Crimea - 1782-1783 -- $g6.$tSouthern visions - 1784-1787 -- $g7.$tWar - 1787 -- $g8.$tThe siege of Ochakov - 1788 -- $g9.$tA gallant campaign, the count's betrayal, and Blackie - 1789 -- $g10.$tOne paw out of the mud - 1790 -- $g11.$tDeath on the steppe - 1791.
500 $aTranslation of and selections from: Ekaterina II i G.A. Potemkin : lichnai︠a︡ perepiska 1769-1791. Moskva : Nauka, 1997.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [405]-410) and index.
520 1 $a"Of all of history's great romances, few can compare with that of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigory Potemkin. Their turbulent and complicated relationship shocked their contemporaries and continues to intrigue observers of Russia centuries later. Lovers, companions, and, most likely, husband and wife, Catherine and Potemkin were also close political partners, and for a time Potemkin served as Catherine's de facto co-ruler of the Russian Empire. Their letters offer an intimate glimpse into the lovers' unguarded moments, revealing both ecstatic expressions of love and candid insights on eighteenth-century politics." "Beginning with Potemkin's initial letter to Catherine written while off fighting the Turks in 1769 and concluding with his farewell note scribbled the day before his death in 1791, the correspondence spans most of Catherine's reign. The letters are at once personal and political, private and public. Many of Catherine's love letters to Potemkin written during their stormy affair reveal the empress's passionate personality. Potemkin's letters provide rare insight into his arrogant and mercurial character, while serving to dispel the myth of Potemkin as little more than a corrupt sycophant."--BOOK JACKET.
600 00 $aCatherine$bII,$cEmpress of Russia,$d1729-1796$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aPotemkin, Grigoriĭ Aleksandrovich,$ckni︠a︡zʹ,$d1739-1791$vCorrespondence.
650 0 $aEmpresses$zRussia$vCorrespondence.
650 0 $aStatesmen$zRussia$vCorrespondence.
700 1 $aPotemkin, Grigoriĭ Aleksandrovich,$ckni︠a︡zʹ,$d1739-1791.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85811385
700 1 $aSmith, Douglas,$d1962-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98098944
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0412/2003027084.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hDK170$i.A2 2004