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Catherine The Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Great Lives Ser.
The extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most powerful women in history. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination. For thirty-four years, the government, foreign policy, cultural development and welfar ...Show more
Catherine the Great : Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A reconstruction of the 18th-century empress's life that includes coverage of such topics as her efforts to engage Russia in the cultural life of Europe, her creation of the Hermitage and her numerous scandal-free romantic affairs.
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The daughter of an impoverished aristocrat, Catherine was married aged 16 to Grand Duke Peter, heir to the throne of all the Russias, a feckless teenager with a weakness for drink. Catherine was only able to give him an heir by passing off her lover's son as his own. In 1762, Catherine rode out of St Pe ...Show more
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
27.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
The story of Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra has fired the world's imagination ever since their violent deaths during the Russian Revolution. In this biography, first published in 1967, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Massie sets out to show how the personal tragedy of the young heir's haemo ...Show more
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Tsar and his Family by Robert K. Massie
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A superbly crafted and humane portrait of the final days of the last Romanovs - Nicholas II of Russia and his wife Alexandra. Complementing his Pulitzer prize-winning Peter the Great, in this commanding book Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of imperial Russia to tell the ...Show more
Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The Pulitzer prizewinning biography of Peter the Great, the ruler who brought Russia from darkness into light. Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, Robert K. Massie unfolds the extraordinary story of Peter the Great. A volatile feudal tsar with a taste ...Show more
The Romanov's: The Final Chapter by Robert K. Massie
24.99 AUD
Category: History
The compelling quest to solve a great mystery of the twentieth century: the ultimate fate of Russia's last tsar and his family. In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar where the last tsar and his family had been murd ...Show more
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter and his Family by Robert K. Massie
22.99 AUD
Category: History
The compelling quest to solve a great mystery of the twentieth century: the ultimate fate of Russia's last tsar and his family. In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar where the last tsar and his family had been murd ...Show more
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