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Modern Russian historians from Martin Malia to Gregory Freeze barely mention the subject of this massive biography, which illuminates the history of the European revolutionary era. In Volume 10 of The Story of Civilization: Rousseau and Revolution, the Durants pull into focus the wonderfully woven story of Prince Potemkin, Catherine the Great's secret husband and confidant. The palace intrigue is now magnified by this well-documented work by journalist Montefiore (the Sunday Times, the New York Times), who studied history at Cambridge. Montefiore's job as biographer is to aggrandize his subject, and so Potemkin here assumes nearly mythical stature in 18th-century history. His enemies and detractors, mainly other European statesmen, propounded preposterous stories of fake villages in the Crimea and other events that diminished Potemkin's accomplishments. Montefiore has restored him to a prominent place in Russian history, showing that his accomplishments were greater, in Russian terms, than those of any other Russian save Peter the Great: "Potemkin was unique in combining the creative ideas of an entrepreneur with the force of a soldier and the foresight of a statesman." Highly recommended for academic and public libraries. Harry Willems, Southeast Kansas Lib. Syst., Iola
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Wall Street Journal
"...a colorful biography...Mr. Montefiore captures the genius of two extraordinary Enlightment figures -- and of the age as well."
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Modern Russian historians from Martin Malia to Gregory Freeze barely mention the subject of this massive biography, which illuminates the history of the European revolutionary era. In Volume 10 of The Story of Civilization: Rousseau and Revolution, the Durants pull into focus the wonderfully woven story of Prince Potemkin, Catherine the Great's secret husband and confidant. The palace intrigue is now magnified by this well-documented work by journalist Montefiore (the Sunday Times, the New York Times), who studied history at Cambridge. Montefiore's job as biographer is to aggrandize his subject, and so Potemkin here assumes nearly mythical stature in 18th-century history. His enemies and detractors, mainly other European statesmen, propounded preposterous stories of fake villages in the Crimea and other events that diminished Potemkin's accomplishments. Montefiore has restored him to a prominent place in Russian history, showing that his accomplishments were greater, in Russian terms, than those of any other Russian save Peter the Great: "Potemkin was unique in combining the creative ideas of an entrepreneur with the force of a soldier and the foresight of a statesman." Highly recommended for academic and public libraries. Harry Willems, Southeast Kansas Lib. Syst., Iola
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Wall Street Journal
"...a colorful biography...Mr. Montefiore captures the genius of two extraordinary Enlightment figures -- and of the age as well."
See all Editorial Reviews
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