Creating the Empress: Politics & Poetry in the Age of Catherine II (Ars Rossika)

by VeraProskurina (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2011

  $91.56

  Examines the interaction between power and poetry in creating the imperial image of Catherine the Great, providing an analysis of a wide range of Russian literary works from the period, particularly the main Classical myths associated with Catherine as well as how these Classical subjects affirmed imperial ideology and the monarch's power.