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CATHERINE By KATHERINE ANTHONY CATHERINE THE GREAT is primarily a story. MissA71- thony has woven the portrait of a real woman into the intricate pattern of Eighteenth Century We politics. are introduced to Catherine^ the statesman.^ who unites Russia^ destroys Poland and even participates in the American Revolutionary War; we also see Catheri^ie, the jeal- ous mistress of men^ who at sixty has a lover of twenty-five. "Miss Anthony's biography derives much of its value from thefact that she secured access to Catherine's own voluminous diaries and letters. The ma- terial is here for thefirst time, so far as the reviewer knozvs^ made available in English. It has peculiar interest, naturally, in its bearing on Catherine's celebrated love life. . . . To Miss Anthony's great credit, she presents Catherine in her true proportions. There . . . is no morefascinating story in history, and Miss Anthony has squeezedfrom it every drop of its dramatic a?id human qual- z7y."—NEW YORK TIMES. (See reverse side of this v/rap- per for description of other titles in this series.) 1133 ^ ^^^ x5^^^ ^ Vj^ ^^^^joi^ \^^ a_^ UAIIMIXA I,\l AVTOKl'Aidl'lii^vITAlIll Ulil l'f}i.MAl. CATHERINE THE GREAT CATHERINE THE GREAT BY KATHARINE ANTHONY -^^Rse^ NEW YORK GARDEN CITY GARDEN CITY PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inc. COPYEIGHT, 1925, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC. MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS I. FiKE OF Zerbst is Born 3 II. She is Educated 22 III. Russia 38 IV. She Goes to Russia 58> V. FiKE Becomes Catherine 80 VI. Catherine Becomes a Mother 101 VII. PONIATOVSKY 123 VIII. Orlov 153 IX. Catherine the Great 189 X. POTIOMKIN 225 XI. Catherine Becomes a Grandmother 266 XII. She Grows Old 300 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 http://www.archive.org/details/catherinegreatOOanth
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