Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Life of Catherine the Great of Russia
Catherine which he has endeavoured to give in these pages. Lives of Catherine have been many, but none can be said to have presented a really dispassionate picture of that great ruler's character and reign.
This the author has attempted; where he has failed he must plead the reader's indulgence. He has endeavoured, wherever possible, to let the Empress speak for herself from her own letters, and where this was not feasible he has reproduced the words of contemporary diplomatists and other competent persons.
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