@article{305433,
      author = {Catherine and Cruse, Mark. and Hoogenboom, Hilde.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/305433},
      title = {The memoirs of Catherine the Great /},
      publisher = {Modern Library,},
      abstract = {Empress Catherine II brought Europe to Russia, and Russia  to Europe, during her long and eventful reign (1762-1796).  She fostered the Enlightenment and greatly expanded the  empire created by Tsar Ivan the Terrible, shifting the  balance of power in Europe eastward. Famous for her will to  power and for her dozen lovers, Catherine was also a  prolific and gifted writer. She published political theory,  journalism, comedies, operas, and history, while writing  thousands of letters as she corresponded with Voltaire and  other public figures. Her memoirs provide an unparalleled  window into eighteenth-century Russia and the mind of an  absolute ruler. This new translation from the French is  scrupulously faithful to her words and is the first for  which translators have consulted original manuscripts  written in Catherine's own hand.--From publisher  description.},
      recid = {305433},
      pages = {xc, 247 p., [8] p. of plates :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2005},
}