Catalina La Grande/ Catherine the Great: El Poder De La Lujuria/ the Power of Lust - Softcover

Miguens, Silvia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8497633393 ISBN 13: 9788497633390

Publisher: Nowtilus, 2006

Synopsis

In 1762, the Tsar Peter III of Russia dies in a coup d’etat and Catherine, his wife of age 33, assumes power and becomes Catherine of Russia. Although the coup was organized by the Imperial Guard and members of the nobility, Catherine supported the political plan and accepted the conditions of the conspirators. However, from the very beginning she manifested the policies that would govern during her reign: a strengthening of the state internally, unlimited power to the nobility, and an aggressive exterior policy in order to achieve Russian hegemony in Eastern Europe and to situate the country as a world power internationally – in sum, a return to the times of Peter the Great, grandfather of the Catherine’s fallen husband.

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About the Author

Silvia Miguens was born in Buenos Aires. She has attended Genre, Literature and History international congresses and given conferences, workshops and seminars at Argentine and Colombian Universities. Her first novel, PollerapantalOn, went through to the final stage of the EmecE award 1994-1995. In 1996, Tusquets published Lupe, novel for which she received the Ricardo Rojas award (1995-1997). In 1998, she published Ana y el virrey (Ana and the viceroy-Planeta Publishing Corporation-Argentina), a best-seller praised by critics; in 2000, La gloria eres tU (You are the glory-Planeta Publishing Corporation-Argentina), which was reprinted in 2001 in Colombia and in 2005 in Argentina. She is also the author of the best-selling title Catalina la Grande, el poder de la lujuria (Catherine, the Great, the power of lust), published by Nowtilus in 2006.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nowtilus
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 8497633393
• ISBN 13: 9788497633390
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 253