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"CATHERINE, THE PORTRAIT OF AN EMPRESS-Gina Kaus-Viking ($3.50).
If not the most proper, the most enthralling study of mankind is woman. And a woman like Catherine the Great of Russia is indeed somebody to write a book about. Last week appeared neither the first nor the last of her biographies, but one of the best. Readers whose vague...
Catherine the Great was not a Russian nor was her name Catherine. Born Sophia Augusta Frederica, the unconsidered daughter of a German princeling, she was brought up to be a pawn of European diplomacy; at 14 she was sent to Russia to marry her third cousin, Grand Duke Peter (half...
Saltykov tired of his imperial conquest, but soon Catherine had another lover, Poniatowski. Husband Peter connived at this intrigue even more openly. When Poniatowski was recalled to his native Poland, Catherine solaced herself with a muscular Guards lieutenant named Orlov. But meantime she was making herself as popular as Peter...
Once King Henry VIII loved nothing better than to throw his arm about the neck of the author of Utopia and stroll with Sir Thomas More in his garden by the Thames. Of his sovereign, Sir Thomas said: ''If my head should win him a castle in France...