Creating the Empress: Politics and Poetry in the Age of Catherine II

ISBN-13: 9781618118059 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 312 str.

Vera Proskurina

Opis

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