![]() ![]() She softened imperial presence with a sense of humor and a quick tongue indeed, with Catherine more than with any other monarch of her day, there was always a wide latitude for humor. During the coup, she had shown determination and courage once on the throne, she displayed an open mind, willingness to forgive, and a political morality founded on rationality and practical efficiency. She was intelligent, well read, and a shrewd judge of character. Her signature, inscribed on a decree, was law and, if she chose, could mean life or death for any one of her twenty million subjects. ![]() She sat on the throne of Peter the Great and ruled an empire, the largest on earth. MassieRandom House, 2011Right at the half-way mark in Robert Massie's supple, fantastic new life of Catherine the Great, his subject's life changes forever: Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. ![]()
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