Robert K. Massie
publisher
Random House
format
Hardcover
pages
656 pages
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The Pulitzer-prize winning author of "Peter the Great," "Nicholas and Alexandra" and "The Romanovs" returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history. The story is superbly told. All the special qualities that Robert K. Massie brought to his other great biographies are present here: historical accuracy, depth of understanding, felicity of style, mastery of detail, ability to shatter myth, and a rare genius for finding and expressing the human drama in extraordinary lives.
About the AuthorRobert Massie is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, Dreadnought and The Romanovs: The Final Chapter. He lives in Irvington, New York.
Beyond the book
"[Massie] hasn't lost his mojo. . . . a consistently nimble and buoyant performances . . . [Massie] has always been a biographer with the instincts of a novelist. He understands plot-fate-as a function of character, and the narrative perspective he establishes and maintains, a vision tightly aligned with that of his subject, convinces a reader he's not so much looking at Catherine the Great as he is out of her eyes. . . juicy and suspenseful." - Kathryn Harrison, The New York Times Book Review
"What Catherine the Great offers is a great story in the hands of a master storyteller." - The Wall Street Journal