| Description |
xiv, 634 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [593]-614) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Potemkin and Catherine 1739-1762 -- 1. The provincial boy -- 2. The guardsman and the Grand Duchess : Catherine's coup -- 3. First meeting : the Empress's reckless suitor -- pt. 2. Closer 1762-1774 -- 4. Cyclops -- 5. The war hero -- 6. The happiest man alive -- pt. 3. Together 1774-1776 -- 7. Love -- 8. Power -- 9. Marriage : Madame Potemkin -- 10. Heartbreak and understanding -- pt. 4. The passionate partnership 1776-1777 -- 11. Her favourites -- 12. His nieces -- 13. Dutchesses, diplomats and charlatans -- pt. 5. The Colossus 1777-1783 -- 14. Byzantium -- 15. The Holy Roman Emperor -- 16. Three marriages and a crown -- 17. Potemkin's paradise : the Crimea -- pt. 6. The Co-Tsar 1784-1786 -- 18. Emperor of the south -- 19. British Blackamoors and Chechen warriors -- 20. Anglomania : the Benthams in Russia and the Emperor of Gardens -- 21. The white Negro -- 22. A day in the life of Grigory Alexandrovich -- pt. 7. The apogee, 1787-1790 -- 23. The magical theatre -- 24. Cleopatra -- 25. The Amazons -- 26. Jewish cossacks and American admirals : Potemkin's war -- 27. Cry havoc : the storming of Ochakov -- 28. My successes are yours -- 29. The delicious and the cruel : Sardanapalus -- 30. Sea of slaughter : Ismail -- pt. 8. The last dance 1791 -- 31. The beautiful Greek -- 32. Carnival and crisis -- 33. The last ride. |
| Subject |
Potemkin, Grigoriĭ Aleksandrovich, kni︠a︡zʹ, 1739-1791.
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Generals -- Russia -- Biography.
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Statesmen -- Russia -- Biography.
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Favorites, Royal -- Russia -- Biography.
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Russia -- History -- Catherine II, 1762-1796.
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| Added Title |
Life of Potemkin |
| ISBN |
0312278152 |
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