|summary=A very full life and times of Catherine, Empress of Russia, one of the dominant figures of the Romanov dynasty.
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Already known for major biographies of Nicholas and Alexandra, and of Peter the Great, Massie has now written an equally full and absorbing life of the late eighteenth-century reigning Empress.