Ekaterina II without retouching

None of the subsequent Russian monarchs could overshadow the glory of the reign of Catherine II. In the wars, she was a winner, joining the richest areas to Russia in the south and west; as the legislator has drawn wise and fair laws; She respected the rights of all the peoples subordinated to her power, all religions were honored by her. Catherine II peacefully completed the fact that Peter I was forced to force violently. One of the empress’s personal life is full of drama: she was denied the simple happiness of her mother - to educate her child, it was not given to meet the only one who shares her views and convictions of a man. And sometimes it’s difficult to understand what directed it in a particular situation - the wisdom of a sophisticated politician or annoyance unhappy in her choice of a woman?

This publication includes the memories of the closest people, proxies, fragments of correspondence, rare documents and evidence that allows you to look at Empress Catherine II is unbiased, to find out what she was in everyday life, outside the court etiquette, and The new to evaluate the results of her rule.