?Catherine the Great of Russia had a career no biographer need
highlight for effect and Miss Thomson gives it a stirring recital.
But she does considerably more; the setting is expertly sketched,
the cities, social background, even the physical geography of
eighteenth-century Russia are described with precision, and space
is found for the arts and sciences.?-Saturday Review of
Literature
"Catherine the Great of Russia had a career no biographer need
highlight for effect and Miss Thomson gives it a stirring recital.
But she does considerably more; the setting is expertly sketched,
the cities, social background, even the physical geography of
eighteenth-century Russia are described with precision, and space
is found for the arts and sciences."-Saturday Review of Literature
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