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Books about Catherine the Great

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Books about Catherine the Great

Post by diamondlil » Sat December 6th, 2008, 10:48 pm

I have heard a rumour that the author of The Madonnas of Leningrad, Debra Dean, is working on a book set in the times of Catherine the Great.

I am somewhat surprised that there isn't more around about her.
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Post by SonjaMarie » Sun December 7th, 2008, 1:26 am

[quote=""diamondlil""]I have heard a rumour that the author of The Madonnas of Leningrad, Debra Dean, is working on a book set in the times of Catherine the Great.

I am somewhat surprised that there isn't more around about her.[/quote]

Do you mean fiction or nonfiction?

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Post by diamondlil » Sun December 7th, 2008, 1:27 am

I mean fiction.
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Post by SonjaMarie » Sun December 7th, 2008, 1:36 am

Found a few titles:
"Star of the North" by Helene Lehr
"The Naked Angel" by Stella Hershan
"Curse Not the King" by Norah Lofts
"Royal Intrigue. The Fantastic Story of Catherine the Great and Her Mad Son Paul" by Evelyn Anthony
"Bed Of An Empress" by Leopold Sacher-Masoch (about her sexual appetites, may not be a good choice though)

Some of these are a bit more then some may want to pay, but that's what I found.

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Post by Divia » Sun December 7th, 2008, 2:56 am

SM are those fiction or NF titles.

And yes I agree there arent enough fiction books about her or Russia, for that matter!
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Post by annis » Sun December 7th, 2008, 2:57 am

I would be good to have a modern take on Catherine the great. There's some good NF around, but not much recent HF.

Evelyn Anthony wrote a series of novels about Catherine, called the Romanov trilogy
1) Imperial Highness ( Catherine the Great's rise to become Empress of Russia)
2) Curse Not the King (the struggle for power between Catherine the Great and her son Paul )
3) Far Flies the Eagle (the confict between Catherine the Great's grandson Czar Alexander I and Napoleon)

I'm wondering if your Norah Lofts' title is really the Evelyn Anthony one, SM
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Post by SonjaMarie » Sun December 7th, 2008, 3:00 am

[quote=""Divia""]SM are those fiction or NF titles.

And yes I agree there arent enough fiction books about her or Russia, for that matter![/quote]

Fiction, I did a search on Addall and the entries I found said fiction, I had make sure I didn't mistake non - fiction for fiction.

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Post by SonjaMarie » Sun December 7th, 2008, 3:00 am

[quote=""annis""]
I'm wondering if your Norah Lofts' title is really the Evelyn Anthony one, SM[/quote]

Not sure, maybe.

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Post by SonjaMarie » Sun December 7th, 2008, 3:05 am

I just redid the search and it's Evelyn, not sure where I got Norah from since her name doesn't even come up on the 2nd time I searched, weird!

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Post by Divia » Sun December 7th, 2008, 3:24 am

The publisher for Imperial Highness is curly. hmmm... I'm thinkin its not a masterpiece.

I decided to buy "Star of the North" by Helene Lehr. It was 4 bucks. I can spare that.
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