Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman Paperback by Robert K. Massie Condition:New she kept a diary as

she kept a diary as a child--which probably helped her to discover her love and talent for writing and surely provided ideas later for her various plots and characters

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and the humanity of this truly modern figure

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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman Paperback by Robert K. Massie Condition:New she kept a diary asProduct Details Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (2012 09 18) Language: English Paperback: 672 pages ISBN 13: 9780345408778 Item Weight: 640. 71 grams Dimensions: 9. 17 x 6. 04 x 1. 38 cm NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An absorbing (Los Angeles Times) biography of one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in Russian historyfrom the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs [A]