Recommended to readers who enjoyed Eva Stachniak's The Winter Palace.A fourteen-year old German princess is brought to Russia in the mid-eighteenth century to be betrothed to the sadistic and immature heir to the throne. The court, ruled by the beautiful and capricious Empress Elizabeth, is not for the faint-hearted, but Princess Sophie survives two decades of dangerous intrigue to become one of Russia's greatest rulers. Sequel available on Amazon Kindle: An Empress on the Throne of RussiaNEW! The third and final part of Catherine's story just out on Amazon Kindle: Love and Other Affairs in the Empire of Russia
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