Catherine the Great : love, sex and power /
Virginia Rounding.
- 1st U.S. ed.
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2007.
- xxv, 566 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill., col. ports. ; 25 cm.
Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 512-552) and index.
From Feudal Anthill to the Court of Russia -- Engagement and wedding -- Early married life -- Catherine grows up -- Sir Charles Hanbury-Williams and Stanislas Poniatowski -- Empress of all the Russias -- Murder, coronation and conspiracy -- Catherine sets to work -- Laws, smallpox and war -- The heroic Orlov -- Confusion and unrest -- Passion and pretenders -- New lovers and a new daughter-in-law -- Grandsons and other acquisitions -- The empress and the emperor -- The failures of physicians -- Convalescence and recovery -- The great Crimean Voyage, and 'proverbs' in Petersburg -- The beginning of the end -- Last years -- Death and burial.