Prince of Princes : The Life of Potemkin
Language: English
Published by Phoenix Press, London, 2001
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Phoenix Press, London, 2001. Pictorial soft cover. Book Condition : Very good, like new, appears unread. minor shelf wear. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Bookseller Inventory #006260. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Title
- Prince of Princes : The Life of Potemkin
- Author
- Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Publisher
- Phoenix Press, London
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Signed
- N/A
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1842124382
- ISBN 13
- 9781842124383
- Illustrator
- N/A
- Edition
- 2001.
It is one of the great love stories of history, and one of its most successful political partnerships.
Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious passion and imperial ambition, perhaps the greatest of the Romanovs. Prince Potemkin - wildly flamboyant and sublimely talented - was the love of her life and her co-ruler. Together they seized Ukraine and Crimea and founded cities such as Sebastopol, defining the Russian empire to this day. Their affair was so tumultuous they negotiated an arrangement to share power, leaving Potemkin free to love his beautiful nieces, Catherine her young male favourites. But these 'twin souls' never stopped loving each other.
Drawing on their intimate letters and vast new research from St Petersburg to Odessa, Simon Sebag Montefiore's enthralling, much-acclaimed biography restores these imperial partners to their rightful place as titans of their age.
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About the Author
Simon Sebag Montefiore is a prizewinning historian whose bestselling books have been published in over forty-five languages. CATHERINE THE GREAT AND POTEMKIN was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; STALIN: THE COURT OF THE RED TSAR won the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards; YOUNG STALIN won the Costa Biography Award, LA Times Biography Prize and Le Grand Prix de Biographie; JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY was a number one bestseller and won the Jewish Book Council's Book of the Year prize; THE ROMANOVS: 1613-1918 was an international bestseller and won the Lupicaia del Terriccio Book Prize. Montefiore is also the author of the acclaimed novels SASHENKA, RED SKY AT NOON and ONE NIGHT IN WINTER, which won the Paddy Power Political Fiction Book of the Year Award. He read history at Cambridge University where he received his PhD, and now lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children.
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