![]() ![]() Many books have been written about Catherine, undoubtedly the most progressive monarch of Russia, but Massie is able to transcend previous biographies by bringing a novelistic effect to his profile of this unique woman he is a story teller in the true sense. Massie’s sprawling book Catherine the Great, Portrait of a Woman (Random House). This is how we first meet Sophia, who became the brilliant Russian Empress, Catherine II, in Robert K. They had been summoned by Russian Empress Elizabeth, who was seeking a bride for her sickly and witless nephew and successor, Peter Ulrich, the only surviving grandson of Peter the Great. ![]() In January 1744, Sophia Augusta Fredericka, daughter of a minor German prince, and her mother Johanna, boarded a coach in Berlin for St. ![]()
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