Creating the Empress: Politics and Poetry in the Age of Catherine II [1 ed.] 9781618116710, 9781936235506

Creating the Empress: Politics and Poetry in the Age of Catherine II 9781618116710

In Creating the Empress, Vera Proskurina examines the interaction between power and poetry in creating the imperial imag

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Memoirs of the Empress Catherine II 9783734041266

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Memoirs of the Empress Catherine II. 9781465611512

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War and Enlightenment in Russia: Military Culture in the Age of Catherine II 9781487518196

Featuring rare letters of recommendation and military manuals, this is the first book to explore the intersection of the

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War and Enlightenment in Russia: Military Culture in the Age of Catherine II 9781487518196

Featuring rare letters of recommendation and military manuals, this is the first book to explore the intersection of the

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War and Enlightenment in Russia: Military Culture in the Age of Catherine II 9781487503543

War and Enlightenment in Russia explores how members of the military during the reign of Catherine II reconciled Enlight

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The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton 9781501729829

John Rogers here addresses the literary and ideological consequences of the remarkable, if improbable, alliance between

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History of Russia from Earliest Times Volume 42: A New Empress Peter III and Catherine II, 1761-1762 [42]

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Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov: The Poetry of Politics, the Politics of Poetry 9781503625150

This collection of essays, written for this volume and often using unpublished and archival materials, converges around

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The Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena 9781501728297

Luongo investigates how Catherine's spiritual authority and sanctity were linked with contemporary political and cu

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