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Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra: the Story of the Romanovs

Robert K. Massie(Autor*in)

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Intro
Welcome Page
1. Catherine the Great
Cover
Welcome Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Maps
Part I: A German Princess
Chapter 1: Sophia's Childhood
Chapter 2: Summoned to Russia
Chapter 3: Frederick II and the Journey to Russia
Chapter 4: Empress Elizabeth
Chapter 5: The Making of a Grand Duke
Chapter 6: Meeting Elizabeth and Peter
Chapter 7: Pneumonia
Chapter 8: Intercepted Letters
Chapter 9: Conversion and Betrothal
Chapter 10: A Pilgrimage to Kiev and Transvestite Balls
Chapter 11: Smallpox
Chapter 12: Marriage
Chapter 13: Johanna Goes Home
Part II: A Painful Marriage
Chapter 14: The Zhukova Affair
Chapter 15: Peepholes
Chapter 16: A Watchdog
Chapter 17: "He Was Not a King
Chapter 18: In the Bedroom
Chapter 19: A House Collapses
Chapter 20: Summer Pleasures
Chapter 21: Dismissals at Court
Chapter 22: Moscow and the Country
Chapter 23: Choglokov Makes an Enemy and Peter Survives a Plot
Chapter 24: A Bath Before Easter and a Coachman's Whip
Chapter 25: Oysters and an Actor
Chapter 26: Reading, Dancing, and a Betrayal
Part III: Seduction, Motherhood, and Confrontation
Chapter 27: Saltykov
Chapter 28: The Birth of the Heir
Chapter 29: Retaliation
Chapter 30: The English Ambassador
Chapter 31: A Diplomatic Earthquake
Chapter 32: Poniatowski
Chapter 33: A Dead Rat, an Absent Lover, and a Risky Proposal
Chapter 34: Catherine Challenges Brockdorff
She Gives a Party
Chapter 35: Apraksin's Retreat
Chapter 36: Catherine's Daughter
Chapter 37: The Fall of Bestuzhev
Chapter 38: A Gamble
Chapter 39: Confrontation
Chapter 40: A Ménage à Quatre
Part IV: "The Time Has Come!
Chapter 41: Panin, Orlov, and Elizabeth's Death
Chapter 42: The Brief Reign of Peter III
Chapter 43: "Dura!
Chapter 44: "We Ourselves Know Not What We Did
Part V: Empress of Russia
Chapter 45: Coronation
Chapter 46: The Government and the Church
Chapter 47: Serfdom
Chapter 48: "Madame Orlov Could Never Be Empress of Russia
Chapter 49: The Death of Ivan VI
Chapter 50: Catherine and the Enlightenment
Chapter 51: The Nakaz
Chapter 52: "All Free Estates of the Realm
Chapter 53: "The King We Have Made
Chapter 54: The First Partition of Poland and the First Turkish War
Chapter 55: Doctors, Smallpox, and Plague
Chapter 56: The Return of "Peter the Third
Chapter 57: The Last Days of the "Marquis de Pugachev
Part VI: Potemkin and Favoritism
Chapter 58: Vasilchikov
Chapter 59: Catherine and Potemkin: Passion
Chapter 60: Potemkin Ascending
Chapter 61: Catherine and Potemkin: Separation
Chapter 62: New Relationships
Chapter 63: Favorites
Part VII: "My Name Is Catherine the Second
Chapter 64: Catherine, Paul, and Natalia
Chapter 65: Paul, Maria, and the Succession
Chapter 66: Potemkin: Builder and Diplomat
Chapter 67: Crimean Journey and "Potemkin Villages
Chapter 68: The Second Turkish War and the Death of Potemkin
Chapter 69: Art, Architecture, and the Bronze Horseman
Chapter 70: "They Are Capable of Hanging Their King from a Lamppost!
Chapter 71: Dissent in Russia, Final Partition of Poland
Chapter 72: Twilight
Chapter 73: The Death of Catherine the Great
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Notes
Index
A, B, C
D, E, F
G, H, I
J, K, L
M, N, O
P, Q, R
S, T, U
V, W, X
Y, Z
About this Book
Reviews
About the Author
About Head of Zeus
Copyright
Contents
2. Nicolas and Alexandra
Cover
Welcome Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Map
Introduction
Cast of characters
Part 1
Chapter 1: 1894: Imperial Russia
Chapter 2: The Tsarevich Nicholas
Chapter 3: Princess Alix
Chapter 4: Marriage
Chapter 5: The Coronation
Chapter 6: The New Tsar
Chapter 7: Two Revolutionaries
Chapter 8: The Kaiser's Advice
Chapter 9: 1905
Part 2
Chapter 10: The Tsar's Village
Chapter 11: "OTMA" and Alexis
Chapter 12: A Mother's Agony
Chapter 13: The Royal Progress
Chapter 14: "The Little One Will Not Die"
Chapter 15: Rasputin
Chapter 16: The Holy Devil
Chapter 17: "We Want a Great Russia"
Chapter 18: The Romanov Dynasty
Chapter 19: The Long Summer of 1914
Part 3
Chapter 20: For the Defense of Holy Russia
Chapter 21: Stavka
Chapter 22: "Poor Fellows, They Are Ready to Give Their Lives for a Smile"
Chapter 23: The Fateful Deception
Chapter 24: The Government Disintegrates
Chapter 25: The Prince and the Peasant
Chapter 26: Last Winter at Tsarskoe Selo
Chapter 27: Revolution: March 1917
Chapter 28: Abdication
Chapter 29: The Empress Alone
Part 4
Chapter 30: Citizen Romanov
Chapter 31: "His Majesty's Government Does Not Insist"
Chapter 32: Siberia
Chapter 33: Good Russian Men
Chapter 34: Ekaterinburg
Epilogue
Genealogy of Nicholas and Alexandra
Family Trees
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
A, B, C
D, E, F
G, H, I
J, K, L
M, N, O
P, Q, R
S, T, U
V, W, X
Y, Z
About this Book
Also By Robert K. Massie
About the Author
About Head of Zeus
Copyright
Contents
3. Peter the Great
Cover
Welcome Page
Dedication
Maps
Part 1: OLD MUSCOVY
Chapter 1: OLD MUSCOVY
Chapter 2: PETER'S CHILDHOOD
Chapter 3: "A MAIDEN OF GREAT INTELLIGENCE
Chapter 4: THE REVOLT OF THE STRELTSY
Chapter 5: THE GREAT SCHISM
Chapter 6: PETER'S GAMES
Chapter 7: THE REGENCY OF SOPHIA
Chapter 8: SOPHIA OVERTHROWN
Chapter 9: GORDON, LEFORT AND THE JOLLY COMPANY
Chapter 10: ARCHANGEL
Chapter 11: AZOV
Part 2: THE GREAT EMBASSY
Chapter 12: THE GREAT EMBASSY TO WESTERN EUROPE
Chapter 13: "IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO DESCRIBE HIM
Chapter 14: PETER IN HOLLAND
Chapter 15: THE PRINCE OF ORANGE
Chapter 16: PETER IN ENGLAND
Chapter 17: LEOPOLD AND AUGUSTUS
Chapter 18: "THESE THINGS ARE IN YOUR WAY
Chapter 19: FIRE AND KNOUT
Chapter 20: AMONG FRIENDS
Chapter 21: VORONEZH AND THE SOUTHERN FLEET
Part 3: THE GREAT NORTHERN WAR
Chapter 22: MISTRESS OF THE NORTH
Chapter 23: LET THE CANNON DECIDE
Chapter 24: CHARLES XII
Chapter 25: NARVA
Chapter 26: "WE MUST NOT LOSE OUR HEADS
Chapter 27: THE FOUNDING OF ST. PETERSBURG
Chapter 28: MENSHIKOV AND CATHERINE
Chapter 29: THE HAND OF THE AUTOCRAT
Chapter 30: POLISH QUAGMIRE
Chapter 31: CHARLES IN SAXONY
Chapter 32: THE GREAT ROAD TO MOSCOW
Chapter 33: GOLOVCHIN AND LESNAYA
Chapter 34: MAZEPPA
Chapter 35: THE WORST WINTER WITHIN MEMORY
Chapter 36: THE GATHERING OF FORCES
Chapter 37: POLTAVA
Chapter 38: SURRENDER BY THE RIVER
Chapter 39: THE FRUITS OF POLTAVA
Part 4: ON THE EUROPEAN STAGE
Chapter 40: THE SULTAN'S WORLD
Chapter 41: LIBERATOR OF THE BALKAN CHRISTIANS
Chapter 42: FIFTY BLOWS ON THE PRUTH
Chapter 43: THE GERMAN CAMPAIGN AND FREDERICK WILLIAM
Chapter 44: THE COAST OF FINLAND
Chapter 45: THE KALABALIK
Chapter 46: VENICE OF THE NORTH
Chapter 47: AN AMBASSADOR REPORTS
Chapter 48: THE SECOND JOURNEY WEST
Chapter 49: "THE KING IS A MIGHTY MAN...
Chapter 50: A VISITOR IN PARIS
Chapter 51: THE EDUCATION OF AN HEIR
Chapter 52: A PATERNAL ULTIMATUM
Chapter 53: FLIGHT OF THE TSAREVICH
Chapter 54: THE FUTURE ON TRIAL
Chapter 55: CHARLES' LAST OFFENSIVE
Chapter 56: KING GEORGE ENTERS THE BALTIC
Chapter 57: VICTORY
Part 5: THE NEW RUSSIA
Chapter 58: IN THE SERVICE OF THE STATE
Chapter 59: COMMERCE BY DECREE
Chapter 60: SUPREME UNDER GOD
Chapter 61: THE EMPEROR IN ST. PETERSBURG
Chapter 62: ALONG THE CASPIAN
Chapter 63: TWILIGHT
EPILOGUE
GENEALOGY OF THE ROMANOV DYNASTY 1613-1917
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Notes
Index
A, B, C
D, E, F
G, H, I
J, K, L
M, N, O
P, Q, R
S, T, U
V, W, X
Y, Z
About this Book
Reviews
About the Author
About Head of Zeus
Copyright
Contents
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