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“Dixon’s achievement is to bring together Catherine’s policy and her personality. It’s a highly challenging question—when you analyse an absolute ruler where does the person ends and the state begin? What is personal and what political?… Dixon succeeds wonderfully in a very short space, in bringing together her vision, her personal impact, her policy, the actual problems she faced during her reign and the realisation of them. It’s a very skilful book, weaving all this together.” Read more...
The best books on Catherine the Great
Andrei Zorin, Historian
