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100	1		_aAnthony, Katharine Susan, _d1877-1965
245	1	0	_aCatherine the Great
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-10-27
505	0		_aFike of Zerbst is born -- She is educated -- Russia -- She goes to Russia -- Fike becomes Catherine -- Catherine becomes a mother -- Poniatovsky -- Orlov -- Catherine the Great -- Potiomkin -- Catherine becomes a grandmother -- She grows old.
508			_aThe Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520			_a"Catherine the Great" by Katharine Susan Anthony is a historical biography written in the early 20th century. It follows the transformation of Sophie “Fike” of Anhalt-Zerbst into Catherine II against a vivid backdrop of Prussian austerity and Russian court turmoil. The focus blends intimate childhood formation with high political intrigue, showing how a little-known German princess was drawn into the orbit of the Romanov dynasty. The opening of the biography sketches Stettin’s harsh, militarized world and introduces Fike’s parents: a frugal, pious Prussian general and an ambitious, socially hungry Holstein-Gottorp princess. It traces Fike’s neglected yet formative upbringing under the clear-eyed French governess Babet Cardel and the dogmatic Pastor Wagner; her plain looks, calculated self-discipline, and skepticism; and a bout of illness that led to a crude but effective “cure,” shaping her lifelong distrust of doctors. The narrative widens to a brisk survey of Russian power: from Peter the Great’s violent genius and the country’s distinct moral climate to the female-dominated succession culminating in Elisabeth Petrovna’s dazzling coup. Elisabeth adopts her sickly nephew (the future Peter III), whose botched Holstein education and arrested development are laid bare. Finally, court politics converge on Fike: the Empress quietly selects her as a bride, secures church approval, brushes aside medical cautions, and dispatches urgent letters summoning mother and daughter— pointedly excluding the father—prompting tense family debate and a hasty, modestly provisioned departure for Russia. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cGarden City: Garden City Publishing Company, 1925
653			_aCatherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796
653			_aEmpresses -- Russia -- Biography
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/catherinegreat00anth/page/n5/mode/2up
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77133
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