Catherine the Great and Potemkin
Power, Love and the Russian Empire
$26.35
- Paperback
640 pages
- Release Date
14 December 2021
Summary
‘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’
It 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.
<…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474614832 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1474614833 |
| Author: | Simon Sebag Montefiore |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 640 |
| Release Date: | 14 December 2021 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 42mm |
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Critics Review
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 - Economist
A rather wonderful book … - Sunday TimesIf you want a good racy historical read, CATHERINE THE GREAT & POTEMKIN certainly provides it! Book of the YearIt is a wonderful story, and Simon Sebag Montefiore tells it with joyful verve. He evidently warms to Potemkin’s overblown personality and relishes the adventurers who swarmed around him. He has a firm grasp of the politics at the Russian court and of the diplomatic context, which is not easy, since the centre of gravity of this story shifts between St Petersburg, Vienna, Berlin and Istanbul … His explanation of the day-to-day mechanics of the unusual menage is light-handed, movingly told and psychologically credible - The TimesAbout The Author
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore is an internationally bestselling author and historian whose prize-winning books have been published in forty-eight languages. Catherine the Great and Potemkin was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar won the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Prize. Young Stalin won the Costa Biography Award (UK), the LA Times Book Prize for Biography (USA), the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique (France), and the Kreisky Prize (Austria). Jerusalem: The Biography - A History of the Middle East was a number one Sunday Times (UK) bestseller, a global bestseller and won The Book of the Year Prize from the Jewish Book Council (US) and the Wenjin Book Prize of the National Library of China (People’s Republic of China). The Romanovs: 1613-1918 won the Lupicaia del Terriccio Book Prize (Italy); and The World: A Family History, a NYTimes and Sunday Times bestseller, was named The Times History Book of the Year. In 2025, he was awarded the Blue Metropolis Words to Change Prize (Canada) for “his body of work in humanity and history.’ He is also the author of the Moscow Trilogy of novels: Sashenka, Red Sky at Noon and One Night in Winter, which won the Paddy Power Political Novel of the Year Prize. He read history at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University where he received his PhD. He is the presenter of five history series for the BBC and many of his books are being developed for movies or drama series.
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