History Today, June 1st, 1997
Academic International Press xvi + 276 pp. $35. ISBN: 0-87569-140-4
After years of exposure to pictures of stiff and heavy middle-aged males embracing visiting heads of state, one might be forgiven for thinking that Russia has always been ruled by men. For much of the eighteenth century, however, women held the reins of power and, moreover, they often actively plotted to achieve that position. The German princess who was to become the empress Catherine II connived at the overthrow and possibly the murder of her husband Peter III, whose brief rule followed that of the empress Elizabeth. And ...
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