Title : Terrible Tsarits - Henri Troyat - book

Summary :

Between the brilliant reigns of Peter the Great and Catherine II, Russia experienced thirty-seven years of instability. The autocrat, founder of Saint Petersburg, had his own son killed and neglected to appoint a successor. It was women—three empresses and one regent—who would hold the empire during this long period. And what women! Catherine I, Anna Ivanovna, Anna Leopoldovna, and Elizabeth I would, each in turn, impose on the nation violent and dissolute characters, outbursts and cruelties, the echoes of a life of debauchery and extravagance. It seems as if the same creature, sensual, disorderly, often courageous, passes from one reign to another, from one face to another... A powerful novelist and an erudite and inspired biographer, Henri Troyat brings these fascinating figures back to life. And, around them, a Russia where the Enlightenment of the 18th century mingles with the superstitions and barbarities of another age.

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