Elizabeth and Catherine : empresses of all the Russias / by Robert Coughlan; Edited by Jay Gold.

With hard-and supercover

Cont.: A gallery of Elizabeths -- Empress Catherine remembers Princess Sophia -- ... And Grand Duke Peter -- A wedding that redeemed a vow -- The imprisoned newlyweds -- The inescapable need for an heir -- An heir is created -- Lessons of the "third Rome" -- Politics, war, and love -- High jinks and higher intrigue -- "Three equally dangerous paths" -- Elizabeth and Catherine: the great confrontation -- The death of Elizabeth -- The reign of Peter III -- Peter disposed -- "The death of the monster" -- Petro primo, Catherina secunda -- Building the Hermatige and a palace for Orlow -- Toward the restoration of Kievan Russia -- The Pugachew rebellion -- End of the enlightenment in Russia -- The bamboo kingdom -- Potemkin -- The Greek project -- To the mother of Russian cities -- The drama of Sevastopol -- "In the time of monsieur Alexander."

Elizabeth, the daughter of Peter the Great, emerges as an important figure influencing Catherine the Great and the course of Russian history in this account of the lives of these eighteenth-century empresses.