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Екатерина Великая
Просвещенная монархиня, Северная Семирамида, мудрая Фелица - это все о ней, царице Екатерине II. Державин и Ломоносов слагали ей оды, Карамзин прославил ее в "Истории Государства Российского", Дидро и Вольтер гордились ее дружбой, а Суворов вел в сражения полки с ее именем на устах... Эта книга о великой Императрице, жившей во благо России: при ней строились города, открывались школы и университеты, расширялись границы государства, богатела казна, процветали науки и искусства.
Эта книга о непростой Личности - властной с сановниками и сердечной к людям, честолюбивой на престоле и снисходительной к ближним, непоколебимой в государственных делах и гибкой в политике, купавшейся в роскоши и аскетичной в быту, любившей самых красивых мужчин и менявшей любовников, как перчатки, но всегда остававшейся, даже для своих фаворитов, прежде всего Великой Государыней..
Эта книга о непростой Личности - властной с сановниками и сердечной к людям, честолюбивой на престоле и снисходительной к ближним, непоколебимой в государственных делах и гибкой в политике, купавшейся в роскоши и аскетичной в быту, любившей самых красивых мужчин и менявшей любовников, как перчатки, но всегда остававшейся, даже для своих фаворитов, прежде всего Великой Государыней..
713 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 1, 2000
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Kazimierz Waliszewski
196 booksKazimierz Klemens Waliszewski (1849–1935) was a Polish author of history, who studied in Warsaw and Paris, and wrote primarily about Russian history.
Born in Poland, but a long resident in France, Waliszewski wrote a detailed, scholarly works covering nearly three centuries of Russian history: from Ivan the Terrible to the end of the nineteenth century. He began research in 1870, and devoted over thirty years of work in libraries and archives in Paris, London, Berlin, Vienna, and Saint Petersburg. Several of his works written in French were translated into other languages. Waliszewski, also researched Polish history, and his book, Poland, the Unknown, offers a defence of the country's history against hostile Russian and German interpretations.
As a man of letters, Waliszewski expressed his intention to introduce Joseph Conrad to the Polish public in 1903, after the two had exchanged a number of letters.
Born in Poland, but a long resident in France, Waliszewski wrote a detailed, scholarly works covering nearly three centuries of Russian history: from Ivan the Terrible to the end of the nineteenth century. He began research in 1870, and devoted over thirty years of work in libraries and archives in Paris, London, Berlin, Vienna, and Saint Petersburg. Several of his works written in French were translated into other languages. Waliszewski, also researched Polish history, and his book, Poland, the Unknown, offers a defence of the country's history against hostile Russian and German interpretations.
As a man of letters, Waliszewski expressed his intention to introduce Joseph Conrad to the Polish public in 1903, after the two had exchanged a number of letters.
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