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Author Troyat, Henri, 1911-2007.

Title Terrible tsarinas : five Russian women in power / by Henri Troyat ; translated by Andrea Lyn Secara.

Publication Info. New York : Algora Pub., 2001.
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Description 1 online resource (245 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note Translation of Terribles tsarines.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents I CATHERINE SHOWS THE WAY; II CATHERINE'S REIGN: A FLASH OF FLAMBOYANCE; III MACHINATIONS AROUND THE THRONE; IV THE SURPRISE ACCESSION OF ANNA IVANOVNA; V THE EXTRAVAGANT ANNA; VI ONE ANNA AFTER ANOTHER; VII ELIZABETH'S TRIUMPH; VIII AN AUTOCRAT AT WORK AND PLAY; IX ELIZABETHAN RUSSIA; X HER MAJESTY AND THEIR IMPERIAL HIGHNESSES; XI ANOTHER CATHERINE!; INDEX; THE ROMANOV DYNASTY.
Summary Five flamboyant, "full-blooded" women had a chance to rule Russia. How did it happen, and how did they do? In today's debates about male-female parity, much goes unsaid. Troyat's book brings back the past, when women really had political power. A realisti.
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Subject Russia (Federation) -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
Russia (Federation)
Kings and rulers.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Empresses -- Russia -- Biography.
Empresses.
Russia.
Chronological Term 1689-1801
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Added Title Terribles tsarines. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001035563
Five Russian women in power
Other Form: Print version: Troyat, Henri, 1911-2007. Terribles tsarines. English. Terrible tsarinas. New York : Algora Pub., 2001 1892941546 (DLC) 2001003133
ISBN 0875861482 (electronic book)
9780875861487 (electronic book)
1892941341
9781892941343
1892941546 (alkaline paper)
9781892941541 (alkaline paper)

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