Brandon’s Reviews > Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman > Status Update

What a clever, cruel lie: “died while demanding a Lutheran priest” (483).

The impertinent Gregory Potemkin (457).

Catherine questions (341).

Catherine adds asking to her technique of listening (305).

It seems as if there’s nothing like the arrangement of love to ruin it (167).

It’s all about the dress (153).

Another example of Catherine’s seduction by listening, letting people talk themselves into trouble. Also see 32 and 102 (139).

Catherine’s decision not to correct Peter is more than diplomacy; she is surviving to fight another day (127).

Robert K Massie‘s compassion for Peter‘s evident on this page (95).