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Catherine the Great and Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#313002-VD5
Titel	Catherine the Great and Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair
Auteur	Montefiore, Simon Sebag
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Jaar van uitgave	2016
ISBN10	1780228341
ISBN13	9781780228341
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, illustrations in colour and b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	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. Together they seized Ukraine and Crimea, defining the Russian empire to this day. Their affair was so tumultuous that they negotiated an arrangement to share power, leaving Potemkin free to love his beautiful nieces, and Catherine her young male favourites. But these 'twin souls' never stopped loving each other. Drawing on their intimate letters and vast research, Simon Sebag Montefiore's enthralling, widely acclaimed biography restores these imperial partners to their rightful place as titans of ... (Lees verder)their age.
Pagina's	618
Conditie	Goed — Creases in spine.
Prijs	€ 9,00

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