Five Empresses by Evgenii V Anisimov
The ill-fated Anna Leopoldovna (1740-41), groomed for the throne by her namesake aunt, would be Regent for her young son only briefly before a coup by her aunt Elizabeth would condemn Anna's family to a life of imprisonment, desolation, and death in obscurity.
"Anisimov's latest book is a wonderfully entertaining collective biography of the Romanovs' colourful eighteenth-century empresses, who reigned "when lovers ruled Russia" Written with verve by one of Russia's more popular historians today, it is equally adept at chronicling the era's high politics and low bed-chamber antics. - David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, author of Toward the Rising Sun: Russian Ideologies of Empire and the Path to War with Japan."
EVGENII ANISIMOV teaches at the Institute of History, St. Petersburg, Russia. He is the author of The Reforms of Peter the Great (1993). KATHLEEN CARROLL
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| ISBN 13 | 9780275984649 |
| ISBN 10 | 0275984648 |
| Title | Five Empresses |
| Author | Evgenii V Anisimov |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Year published | 2004-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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