Catherine the Great & Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair, (Paperback)

from Hiensch

Although very interesting and offering a new perspective on Potemkin I found the book slightly disappointing. The story of Catherine and Potemkin could have been told in 300 pages instead the five hundred of this book. To my taste too often words like "probably", "surely", "undoubtedly" are used....

from robeik

This is a fantastically long book about a couple of people in the 18th century that I had not heard of, other than that I had heard of someone called Catherine the Great. I'm embarrassed that when I visited St Petersburg some years ago I did not recognize the fingerprints of this remarkable lady ...

from HadriantheBlind

Brilliant biography of two giants of Russian history. Only too often it is seen that many leaders have intensely troubled domestic lives, but these two are the glimmering exceptions. Montefiore has taken this story out of the relative backwaters of history and made it shine again.

from HadriantheBlind

Brilliant biography of two giants of Russian history. Only too often it is seen that many leaders have intensely troubled domestic lives, but these two are the glimmering exceptions. Montefiore has taken this story out of the relative backwaters of history and made it shine again.