Memoirs
13 hrs. 48 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Catherine II the Great
Author
Catherine II the Great
Narrator
Elena Delver
Narrator
Elena Delver
Description
Notes, letters, publicist writing, historical and philosophical works: an epochal legacy left by the greatest ruler in Russian history!
“I can’t see a clean pen without feeling an urge to dip it immediately into ink,” Catherine II confessed honestly in her memoirs, which were banned in царской России (even Nicholas I first read them only after receiving, following Pushkin’s death, a copy preserved with him). And only in 1865 did Herzen publish the empress’s memoirs in London, and they became fully available to domestic readers only at the beginning of the 20th century. An incredible archive left by Catherine the Great has survived to this day—tens of volumes in which her notes and letters, as well as her publicist writing, plays, and historical and philosophical works, have been preserved.
This edition includes a late revision of the “Memoirs” (covering the period from 1744 to 1758), as well as “Selected Letters” by the empress.
“I can’t see a clean pen without feeling an urge to dip it immediately into ink,” Catherine II confessed honestly in her memoirs, which were banned in царской России (even Nicholas I first read them only after receiving, following Pushkin’s death, a copy preserved with him). And only in 1865 did Herzen publish the empress’s memoirs in London, and they became fully available to domestic readers only at the beginning of the 20th century. An incredible archive left by Catherine the Great has survived to this day—tens of volumes in which her notes and letters, as well as her publicist writing, plays, and historical and philosophical works, have been preserved.
This edition includes a late revision of the “Memoirs” (covering the period from 1744 to 1758), as well as “Selected Letters” by the empress.
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