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| Maps | |
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| A German Princess | |
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| Sophia's Childhood | |
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| Summoned to Russia | |
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| Frederick II and the Journey to Russia | |
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| Empress Elizabeth | |
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| The Making of a Grand Duke | |
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| Meeting Elizabeth and Peter | |
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| Pneumonia | |
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| Intercepted Letters | |
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| Conversion and Betrothal | |
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| A Pilgrimage to Kiev and Transvestite Balls | |
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| Smallpox | |
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| Marriage | |
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| Johanna Goes Home | |
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| A Painful Marriage | |
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| The Zhukova Affair | |
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| Peepholes | |
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| A Watchdog | |
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| "He Was Not a King" | |
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| In the Bedroom | |
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| A House Collapses | |
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| Summer Pleasures | |
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| Dismissals at Court | |
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| Moscow and the Country | |
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| Choglokov Makes an Enemy and Peter Survives a Plot | |
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| A Bath Before Easter and a Coachman's Whip | |
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| Oysters and an Actor | |
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| Reading, Dancing, and a Betrayal | |
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| Seduction, Motherhood, and Confrontation | |
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| Saltykov | |
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| The Birth of the Heir | |
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| Retaliation | |
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| The English Ambassador | |
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| A Diplomatic Earthquake | |
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| Poniatowski | |
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| A Dead Rat, an Absent Lover, and a Risky Proposal | |
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| Catherine Challenges Brockdorff; She Gives a Party | |
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| Apraksin's Retreat | |
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| Catherine's Daughter | |
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| The Fall of Bestuzhev | |
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| A Gamble | |
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| Confrontation | |
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| A M�nage � Quatre | |
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| �The Time Has Come!� | |
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| Panin, Orlov, and Elizabeth�s Death | |
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| The Brief Reign of Peter III | |
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| "Dura!" | |
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| "We Ourselves Know Not What We Did" | |
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| Empress of Russia | |
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| Coronation | |
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| The Government and the Church | |
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| Serfdom | |
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| "Madame Orlov Could Never Be Empress of Russia" | |
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| The Death of Ivan VI | |
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| Catherine and the Enlightenment | |
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| The Nakaz | |
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| "All Free Estates of the Realm" | |
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| "The King We Have Made" | |
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| The First Partition of Poland and the First Turkish War | |
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| Doctors, Smallpox, and Plague | |
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| The Return of "Peter the Third" | |
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| The Last Days of the "Marquis de Pugachev" | |
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| Potemkin and Favoritism | |
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| Vasilchikov | |
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| Catherine and Potemkin: Passion | |
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| Potemkin Ascending | |
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| Catherine and Potemkin: Separation | |
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| New Relationships | |
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| Favorites | |
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| �My Name Is Catherine the Second� | |
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| Catherine, Paul, and Natalia | |
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| Paul, Maria, and the Succession | |
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| Potemkin: Builder and Diplomat | |
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| Crimean Journey and "Potemkin Villages" | |
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| The Second Turkish War and the Death of Potemkin | |
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| Art, Architecture, and the Bronze Horseman | |
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| "They Are Capable of Hanging Their King from a Lamppost!" | |
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| Dissent in Russia, Final Partition of Poland | |
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| Twilight | |
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| The Death of Catherine the Great | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |
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| A Reader's Guide | |