Catherine the Great —— Life and Legend

----- 凯瑟琳大帝：生命和传奇

ISBN: 9780195061628 出版年：1989 页码：457 Alexander, John T Oxford University Press

Empress of the vast Russian Empire by the age of 33, Catherine's private and public life generated tremendous contemporary controversy, and she has subsequently been portrayed variously as a political genius, a despotic foreign adventuress, a tyrant, and a nymphomaniac. Drawing on little-known sources, including Catherine's billets doux , John Alexander has produced a much-needed balanced appraisal and popular biography of one of the most powerful, infamous, and colourful figures in modern history.