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c2011., Random House Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Presents a reconstruction of the eighteenth-century empress's life that covers her efforts to engage Russia in the cultural life of Europe, her creation of the Hermitage, and her numerous scandal-free romantic affairs.
![Catherine the Great [eBook] : portrait of a woman](/Library/images/~imageCT73692.JPG "Catherine the Great [eBook] : portrait of a woman")
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c2011., Random House Call No: BIO C363m Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Presents a reconstruction of the eighteenth-century empress's life that covers her efforts to engage Russia in the cultural life of Europe, her creation of the Hermitage, and her numerous scandal-free romantic affairs.
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2014., General, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Sta Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Catherine the Great muses on her life, her relentless battle between love and power, the country she brought into the glorious new century, and the bodies left in her wake. By the end of her life, she had accomplished more than virtually any other woman in history. She built and grew the Romanov empire, amassed a vast fortune of art and land, and controlled an unruly and conniving court. Now, in a voice both indelible and intimate, she reflects on the decisions that gained her the world and brought her enemies to their knees. And before her last breath, shadowed by the bloody French Revolution, she sets up the end game for her last political maneuver, ensuring her successor and the greater glory of Russia.
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-- Great.2020., Adult, 574, Paramount Call No: DVD Fic Great 1 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A satirical, comedic drama, based on the occasional historical fact, about the rise of Catherine the Great. An idealistic romantic young girl, she arrives from Prussia for an arranged marriage to the mercurial Emperor Peter hoping for love and sunshine and finds instead a dangerous, depraved, backward world that she resolves to change. All she has to do is kill her husband, beat the church, baffle the military, and get the court on her side.
![The great, season 1 [DVD] (2020). : season one](/Library/images/~imageCT101491.JPG "The great, season 1 [DVD] (2020). : season one")
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-- Great2022., Adult, Paramount Call No: DVD Fic Great 2 Edition: Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The Great Volume: 2Summary Note: Catherine finally takes the Russian throne for her own- but if she thought coup-ing her husband was difficult, it's nothing compared the realities of liberating a country that doesn't want to be. She'll battle her court, her team, even her own mother in a bid to bring the Enlightenment to Russia.
![The great, season 2 [DVD] (2022)](/Library/images/~imageCT102745.JPG "The great, season 2 [DVD] (2022)")
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c2012., General, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Sta Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Behind every great ruler lies a betrayal. Eva Stachniak's novel sweeps readers into the passionate, intimate, and treacherous world of Catherine the Great, revealing Russia's greatest matriarch from her earliest days in court, where the most valuable currency was the secrets of nobility and the most dangerous weapon to wield was ambition. Two young women, caught in the landscape of shifting allegiances, navigate the treacherous waters of palace intrigue. Barbara is a servant who will become one of Russia's most cunning royal spies. Sophia is a pretty, naive German duchess who will become Catherine the Great. For readers of superb historical fiction, Eva Stachniak captures in glorious detail the opulence of royalty and the perilous loyalties of the Russian court.
