From this book, the Reader learns about the childhood and youth of the famous lover. About his adventures in European cities. About the secrets of his sexual...

Essay.

How did Catherine II come to power? What role did the British play in preparing the palace coup of 1762? Was the Russian Empress an English spy? Whose intere...

Catherine de' Medici, the "Black Queen" (1519-1589), is one of the main figures on the chessboard of the political history of France in the second half of th...

The novel by the historical fiction writer Lev Grigorievich Zhdanov (1865 - 1951), widely known before the revolution, who gained recognition among Russian r...

The life of Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova (1743–1810) was eventful even by the standards of the turbulent 18th century. Born into the family of one of the mos...

The publication was prepared by the Russian Academy of Sciences, in the series “Literary Monuments”. The publication was prepared by V. S. Lopatin.

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Sophia-Frederica-Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst. Catherine the Great...Princess from a tiny German principality, by the will of fate raised to the pinnacle of powe...

“If to reign means to know the weakness of the human soul and to use it, then in this regard Catherine deserves the surprise of posterity.

Her magnifi...

Henri Troyat, a famous French writer and historian, wrote about a hundred volumes during his long creative life, and almost half of them are dedicated to Rus...

I. Klul’s book can easily be called a unique study. This is not just a biography of the mysterious and insidious Catherine de Medici. Through the prism of he...

Katharina die Große (Catherine the Great) (1935) In your hands is finally a properly published famous biography of the great Catherine II, which 70 years ago...