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Authors: Simon Dixon

Catherine the Great

Catherine the Great
Simon Dixon

To my parents

Contents

Prologue
  The coronation of a usurper 1762

Chapter 1
  From Pomerania to St Petersburg 1729–1744

Chapter 2
  Betrothal and marriage 1744–1745

Chapter 3
  Living and loving at the Court of Empress Elizabeth 1746–1753

Chapter 4
  Ambition 1754–1759

Chapter 5
  Assassination 1759–1762

Chapter 6
  ‘Our Lady of St Petersburg’ 1763–1766

Chapter 7
  Philosopher on the throne 1767–1768

Chapter 8
  Imperial ambitions 1768–1772

Chapter 9
  Paul, Pugachëv and Potëmkin 1772–1775

Chapter 10
  The search for emotional stability 1776–1784

Chapter 11
  Zenith 1785–1790

Chapter 12
  End of an era 1790–1796

Epilogue
    The afterlife of an empress

 

European Russia up to 1801, adapted from Hugh Seton Watson,
The Russian Empire 1801–1917
(Oxford, 1967)

St Petersburg and the Gulf of Finland, adapted from Isabel de Madariaga,
Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981)

The Pugachëv revolt 1773–4, adapted from John T. Alexander,
Autocratic Politics in a National Crisis
(Indiana University Press, 1970)

The Russo-Turkish Wars of 1768–74 and 1787–91, adapted from Isabel de Madariaga,
Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981)

St Petersburg in 1776

The Partitions of Poland, 1772, 1793 and 1795, adapted from John Doyle Klier,
Russia Gathers her Jews: The origins of the ‘Jewish question’ in Russia 1772–1825
(Northern Illinois University Press, 1986)

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