by Henri Troyat · tapa dura · ISBN 9782080640284
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«Catherine la Grande» is the historical biography by Henri Troyat, published by Flammarion in hardback (552 pages, in French).
The book follows Sophia of Anhalt-Zerbst, a German princess born in 1726, until she accedes to the Russian throne as Catherine II. Troyat portrays her as cultured, a friend of Voltaire, Diderot and D'Alembert; she learned Russian to get closer to her people and combined liberal ideals with autocratic government.
The edition includes 16 pages of photographs outside the text and belongs to the Grandes biographies collection. The work originally appeared in 1977.
For readers interested in the history of Russia and Europe, as well as in biographies of monarchs and historical figures.
Henri Troyat was a Russian-French writer, biographer, historian, and novelist.
