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Book Review of Catherine the Great: A Biography

Catherine the Great: A Biography
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She came as a virgin to the most licentious court in all the world.

She was given in marriage to a monstrous prince who degraded her in bed and humiliated her out of it.

She fought for survival against a mother-in-law who tried to destroy her again and again.

She triumphed to become the most powerful woman in the world. And the loneliest -- giving herself to legions of lovers in a desperate search for the man who could still the raging fires within her...