Catherine The Great

Broschiertes Buch

Selected Letters

Beschreibung

Catherine the Great ruled Russian from 1762 until her death in 1796. Her letters provide an intimate history of the Russian state as well as a portrait of her character and qualities.

Autor

Andrew Kahn has written widely on Russian literature. His books include The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin (2006) and Pushkin's Lyric Intelligence (2008). For Oxford World's Classics he has edited Pushkin's The Queen of Spades and Other Stories, Montesquieu's Persian Letters, Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time. and Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories. Kelsey Rubin-Detlev read Modern Languages (French and Russian) at Christ Church, Oxford, and was awarded a Congratulatory First. She completed her doctoral dissertation at Oxford on the subject of Catherine the Great and epistolarity.

Produktdetails

• Oxford World's Classics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 132mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9780198736462
• ISBN-10: 0198736460
• Artikelnr.: 51387591