Five Empresses: Court Life in Eighteenth-Century Russia

by Evgenii V. Anisimov

Book Overview

From the untimely demise of the 52-year-old Peter the Great in 1725 to nearly the end of that century, the fate of the Russian empire would rest largely in the hands of five tsarinas. This book tells their stories. Peter's widow Catherine I (1725-27), an orphan and former laundress, would gain control of the ancestral throne, a victorious army, and formidable navy in a country that stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean. Next, Anna...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275984648
• ISBN13: 9780275984649
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Enjoyable, amusing and painless history lessons

My knowledge of Russian history is zip - a collection of names (eg, Catherine the Great, Peter the Great, the doomed Nicholas and Alexandra). Mr Anisimov has given me a thoroughly delightful history lesson of five empresses of 18th century Russia. His clever comments and personal way of writing made me look forward to each page turning.