Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
by Robert K. Massie
2012/ 625 pages
Rating: 7.5

I wanted to read this book since I saw the ads for it – since before it came out.  Well… as usual, there’s a certain amount of disappointment when I hype something to myself.  (Perhaps I might not have been so disappointed had I more carefully noted the subtitle – “Portrait of a WOMAN.”)

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