Catherine the Great Potemkin, Simon Sebag Montefiore
Catherine the Great Potemkin, Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Catherine the Great & Potemkin
The Imperial Love Affair

Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore

Narrator: Sophie Roberts

Unabridged: 27 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/05/2019

Synopsis

A widely acclaimed biography from the bestselling author of The Romanovs: "One of the great love stories of history” (The Economist) between Catherine the Great and the wildly flamboyant and talented Prince Potemkin. • "Captures the genius of two extraordinary Enlightenment figures—and of the age as well." —The Wall Street Journal

Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious passion and imperial ambition. Prince Potemkin was the love of her life and her co-ruler. Together they seized Ukraine and Crimea, territories that define the Russian sphere of influence to this day. Their affair was so tumultuous that they negotiated an arrangement to share power, leaving each of them free to take younger lovers. But these “twin souls” never stopped loving each other.

Drawing on the pair’s intimate letters and on vast research, Simon Sebag Montefiore restores these imperial partners to their rightful place as titans of their age.

"Biography in the grand tradition...Riveting...The author [is] a gifted storyteller." —The Washington Post

About The Author

SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE is a historian of Russia and the Middle East. Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner (original title) was short-listed 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 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the Costa Biography Award, and le Grande Prix de la biographie politique. Jerusalem: The Biography was a worldwide best seller. Montefiore's books are published in more than forty languages. He is the author of the novels Sashenka and One Night in Winter, which won the Paddy Power Political Fiction Book of the Year Award in 2014. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Dr. Montefiore graduated from Cambridge University, where he received his PhD. He lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tessa

Romanul infatiseaza relatia dintre printul Grigori Potemkin si imparateasa Ecaterina a II-a a Rusiei. Este o poveste de dragoste celebra si pasionala, la baza careia raman ca marturie numeroasele scrisori de amor pe care imparateasa i le-a trimis si care au fost gasite asupra lui Potemkin la moartea......more

Goodreads review by Anthony

Love, War and Russia. The story of Catherine the Great cannot be told without telling the story of Prince Gregory Potemkin. The same way the story of Russia cannot be told without telling the story of Catherine the Great. Therefore, it makes sense to combine a biography of both as Simon Sebag Montefi......more

Goodreads review by Robert

This is a weird book. I suppose it is a testament to what a colossal figure Potemkin is, that a regular biography isn't enough, and he needs a whole new genre. The first sections of this book read a bit like a romance novel. Catherine the Great's rise to power is of course fascinating, but it takes......more

Quotes

"One of the great love stories of history...Excellent with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair." —The Economist

"Montefiore conveys [Russian] history with vivid detail and narrative momentum...Captures the genius of two extraordinary Enlightenment figures—and of the age as well." —The Wall Street Journal

"Biography in the grand tradition...Riveting...The author [is] a gifted storyteller." —The Washington Post

"Monumental...Meticulously researched...Dizzily panoramic." —The New York Times Book Review

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