Stories About Catherine the Great

The works of Sergei Petrovich Alekseev—the expert in Russian history and wonderful children’s writer—are a lively and engaging journey into the past of our Motherland. His stories awaken in children an interest in learning the history of the Fatherland, teach them to be proud of their ancestors, and foster patriotism.

Interesting and easy, accessible and educational, the author tells about the glorious years of Catherine II’s reign. About the children’s games of the resourceful German girl-princess Fike and the great deeds of the Russian empress Ekaterina Alekseevna. About printing new money and the storming of Izmail, about a census and the annexation of Crimea, about Suvorov’s victories and the Pugachev uprising. About how the empress was the first to make a smallpox vaccination—and how she forced people to plant potatoes. And even about her favorite little dogs—Sir Tom Anderson and Lady Anderson—and about the talking parrot Vasily…