5/13/2023 0 Comments Catherine the great by simon dixon![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘No one knew what to do,’ admitted Platon Zubov’s dwarf amanuensis, Ivan Yakubovsky: ‘The mind could not grasp that this time had come.’1 It did not take them long to realise, however, that in an intensely personal monarchy such as the Russian empire, the accession of a new ruler could immediately signal a radical reversal of regime. Finding it impossible to imagine anyone else in her place, the Court was stunned by her unexpected demise. Most of her subjects could remember no other monarch. To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt: What reading level is Catherine the Great book? ![]()
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