Hodgetts The Life Of Catherine The Great

The life of Catherine the Great of Russia (1914)

Author: E. A. Brayley (Edward Arthur Brayley), 1859-1932
Subject: Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796; Russia -- History Catherine II, 1762-1796
Language: English

THE author feels that no apology is needed for the popular
account of the life and character of the Empress
Catherine which he has endeavoured to give in these
pages. Lives of Catherine have been many, but none can be
said to have presented a really dispassionate picture of that
great ruler's character and reign.

This the author has attempted ; where he has failed he must
plead the reader's indulgence. He has endeavoured, wherever
possible, to let the Empress speak for herself from her own
letters, and where this was not feasible he has reproduced the
words of contemporary diplomatists and other competent
persons.

Some of the slanders on Catherine have been carefully ex-
amined and found to be contrary to fact. Her warlike achieve-
ments have been judged to be too well known to need a detailed
recapitulation. It is to the more intimate sides of her intellectual
life that most prominence has been given.

The author has been greatly aided in his endeavour to be im-
partial by the works of the Russian historians, Bilbassoff and
Bruckner, and the publications of the Imperial Russian Historical
Society.

His thanks are due to Baron Dimsdale for.....

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