Catherine the Great: In this romanticized biography, a small German principality’s inexperienced princess, Catherine, becomes the bride of czarevitch Peter, the mad and
abusive nephew and heir of the Russian czarina Elizabeth. From Elizabeth she learns the cynical ropes of wielding absolute imperial power at any cost, including sacrificing
her lover, young guards officer Saltykov, who must give her an heir that Peter can’t and is then sent abroad.
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