RJ Deeds’s Reviews > Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner > Status Update

I was reluctant to take up another Montefiore book after Young Stalin. I was hugely surprised and enjoyed this. This book tells how Potemkin weaseled his way into Catherine the Great's affections, how they plotted the expansion of Russia together, how he took off on great adventures to the Black Sea and how she missed him (well, she did but took up with others!). A story, not a historical treatise as Young Stalin.