CATHERINE THE GREAT AND POTEMKIN: THE IMPERIAL LOVE AFFAIR

Book ID/图书代码： 10010013B63192

English Summary/英文概要： History’s greatest love story, Catherine the Great and Potemkin is a sweeping epic of sex, love, power, conquest and extravagance on a magnificent Russian scale. Not only was only was their romance wildly passionate but they were also probably the most successful political partnership of all, outstripping Antony and Cleopatra or Napoleon and Josephine.

Their secret letters, which discuss other lovers, sex, wars, politics, arts and health, are surely the most intimate and extraordinary ever written by an empress or politician. Both characters in this joint biography, based on new archives, are fascinating: she a German princess married lovelessly at 14 to the Russian heir combined charm, passion and political genius. She ruthlessly seized power and ruled triumphantly for thirty years; he - a brilliant flamboyant politician, strategist and conqueror of wild eccentricity and debauchery. Outrageously sexual and political, he was the love of her life. They shocked Europe by taking younger lovers yet they secretly married and ruled together as best friends, and lifelong lovers.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《凯瑟琳大帝与波将金大将》是历史上最伟大的爱情故事。它展现了一段波澜壮阔的俄国史诗，包罗了情欲，爱情，权势，征服以及放纵的元素。他们不仅拥有轰轰烈烈的爱情故事，而且他们可能是所有政治情侣中最成功的一对，他们两人的结合完胜了安东尼和克利奥帕格拉，拿破仑和约瑟芬的爱情故事。

他们相互沟通的密信涉及了情人，情欲，战争，政治，艺术以及健康方面的问题，这些密信透露着亲密非凡的关系一定是史上任何一位女皇抑或政客所无法企及的。在这本联合传记中，所有的人物描写都是基于最新的历史档案资料，能牢牢抓住读者的阅读兴趣：她，一位德国小公国的公主，14岁那年在一场政治婚姻中嫁给了俄国女皇伊丽莎白•彼得罗夫娜的外甥彼得三世•费奥多罗维奇，但他们之间根本不相爱。然而，她却有着与生俱来的超凡魅力，热情以及卓越的政治才能。她残忍地篡夺了政权并且成功地统治了俄国长达30年；他（波将金大将）——聪慧过人的政客，战略家同时也是性情古怪，放荡不羁的征服者。性情狂放，对自己的政治生涯却有着极高的追求，他是她一生的挚爱。他们私下结婚了并且作为最好的朋友以及一生的恋人联手统治了俄国近35年。之后，他们的爱情震惊了欧洲并为后人所津津乐道。(Susie)

Awards/获奖情况："A rattling good read...told with with great verve and a stunning command of his sources" -- Brian Maye Irish Times

One of the great love stories of history in a league with Napoleon and Josephine and Antony and Cleopatra ... Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair (Economist)

A rather wonderful book ... (Mick Jagger Sunday Times)

If you want a good racy historical read, CATHERINE THE GREAT & POTEMKIN certainly provides it! Book of the Year (Antonia Fraser)

It is a wonderful story, and Simon Sebag Montefiore tells it with joyful verve. He evidently warms to Potemkin’s overblown personality and relishes the adventurers who swarmed around him. He has a firm grasp of the politics at the Russian court and of the diplomatic context, which is not easy, since the centre of gravity of this story shifts between St Petersburg, Vienna, Berlin and Istanbul. He is very good on the relationship between Potemkin and Catherine. His explanation of the day-to-day mechanics of the unusual ménage is light-handed, movingly told and psychologically credible (Adam Zamoyski The Times)

About the Author/作者介绍： SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE生于1965年，曾经在剑桥大学冈维尔与凯斯学院攻读历史专业。《凯瑟琳大帝与波将金大将的宫廷恋爱史》一书曾经获得塞缪尔•约翰逊奖（英国著名的非虚构类小说奖），达夫•库珀奖以及马什传记奖在内的多个奖项的提名。

Simon Sebag Montefiore was born in 1965 and read history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. CATHERINE THE GREAT AND POTEMKIN was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper and Marsh Biography Prizes. STALIN: THE COURT OF THE RED TSAR won the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards. YOUNG STALIN won the Costa Biography Award (UK), the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography (US), le Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique (France) and the Bruno Kreisky Prize for Political Literature (Austria). JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY was a number one bestseller in the UK and was awarded the Jewish Book of the Year Prize (USA). He is also the author of the novel SASHENKA (published by Transworld). Montefiore’s books are published in more than thirty-five languages. Miramax, FilmFour and Ruby Films are developing a movie of YOUNG STALIN. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has been appointed Visiting Professor of the Humanities Research Institute, University of Buckingham. He lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children. Visit his website for more information www.simonsebagmontefiore.com , join on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Simon-Sebag-Montefiore and follow on Twitter https://twitter.com/simonmontefiore.

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