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Catherine the Great & Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Synopsis "Catherine the Great & Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair"
From the author of The Romanovs: a vivid account of history's most successful political partnership—as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious passion and imperial ambition. Prince Potemkin—wildly flamboyant and sublimely talented—was the love of her life and her co-ruler.Together they seized Ukraine and Crimea, territories that define the Russian sphere of influence to this day. Their affair was so tumultuous that they negotiated an arrangement to share power, leaving each of them free to take younger lovers. But these “twin souls” never stopped loving each other.Drawing on the pair’s intimate letters and on vast research, Simon Sebag Montefiore's widely acclaimed biography restores these imperial partners to their rightful place as titans of their age.
Simon Sebag Montefiore es autor de numerosos best sellers múltiples veces premiados que se han traducido a cuarenta y ocho idiomas. Su obra Catherine the Great and Potemkin fue nominada al Samuel Johnson Prize de biografía; La corte del zar rojo (Crítica, 2004) ganó el British Book Award al mejor libro de historia del año; Llamadme Stalin (Crítica, 2007) fue galardonado con el Costa Biography Award, el LA Times Book Prize for Biography y el Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique; Jerusalén (Crítica, 2011) ganó el JBC Book of the Year Prize y el Wenjin Book Prize en China, y por Los Románov (Crítica, 2016) le otorgaron el premio literario Lupicaia del Terriccio. También es autor de las novelas que forman la Trilogía de Moscú: Sashenka, Red Sky at Noon y One night in Winter, que ganó el Political Fiction Book of the Year Award; y ha escrito, junto a Santa Montefiore, la serie de novelas infantiles The Royal Rabbits of London. Sus últimas obras son Escrito en la historia. Cartas que cambiaron el mundo (Crítica, 2019) y Voices of History: Speeches that Changed the World.
