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Catherine II (Empress of Russia) (1729 - 1796)

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Short name Catherine II (Empress of Russia)
VIAF http://viaf.org/viaf/49493819/
First name Sophie Auguste Friederike
Birth name von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg
Married name
Alternative name Sophie-Frédérique-Auguste d' Anhalt-Zerbst — Catherine the Great — Ekaterina Alekseevna
Date of birth 1729
Date of death 1796
Flourishing -
Sex Female
Place of birth Szczecin (Stettin)
Place of death Saint Petersburg
Lived in Russia
Place of residence notes
Antoni Albertrandi, after Fyodor Rokotov, portrait of Catherine II, 1780s, Royal Castle Warsaw
Mother
Father
Children
Religion / ideology Eastern Orthodox
Education Educated at home
Aristocratic title -
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Profession(s)
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Place(s) of Residence Russia
Author of
receptions circulations
Mémoires (1746) 0 0
*Keisarinnan Katarina II:s memoarer skrivna av henne själ (1760?) 1 0
*Letter to D'Alembert (first) (1762) 0 0
*Great Instruction (1768) 1 0
Instruction donnée par S. M. Catherine II à la commission chargée de dresser le projet ... (1769) 0 0
Antidote, ou Examen du mauvais livre superbement imprimé intitulé “Voyage en Sibérie fait par ordre du roi en 1761" (1770) 1 0
Gospoja Vestnikova s semieiu, comédie en un acte (1774) 0 0
Imianiny gospoji Vortchalkinoï comédie en cinq actes (1774) 0 0
*Lettre à Grimm, 10 mai 1775 (1775) 0 0
*A jewel as present (1776) 0 0
*Katarina II: Autobiography (1780~) 1 0
O vremia ! [Oh, le temps !], comédie en trois actes, Saint-Pétersbourg, Senatskaia tipografiïa, s.d. (1780) 1 0
*Lettre à Grimm, 7 sept. 1780 (1780) 0 0
Skazka o tsarevitche Khlore (1781) 1 0
Stiepan-Annibale d’Albanie à Frédéric Guillaume de Prusse, épître pathétique, historique, etc., ou l’Alcoran des princes destinés au trône, traduit de la dixième édition italienne par main de maître, Saint-Pétersbourg, impr. de l’Académie impériale. (1783) 0 0
Obmanchtchik [L’imposteur], Saint-Pétersbourg, tipografiïa Akademii naouk (1785) 0 0
Chamane sibirskiï [Le chaman de Sibérie], Saint-Pétersbourg, tipografiïa Akademii naouk. (1786) 0 0
Zapiski kassatelno rossiïskoï istorii [Notes sur l’histoire russe], parties I-VI, Saint-Pétersbourg, imperatorskaïa tipografiïa. (1787) 0 0
*Vertellingen en gesprekken van haare Majesteit de Keizerin aller Russen (1789) 0 0
Razstroennaja semjá ostorozḱami i podozrenijami (Der Familienzwist) (1789) 3 0
*Théâtre de l'hermitage de Catherine II, impératrice de Russie ; composé par cette princesse, par plusieurs personnes de sa société intime et par quelques ministres étrangers... (1798) 0 1
*Answer by Catharina II to Marshal Romantzof (1806) 0 0
*Memoirs of the Empress Catherine II, Written by Herself (1859) 2 0
*to be specified 3 0
(to be added) 0 0
*Pièces de théâtre 0 0
Vsiakaia vsiachina 0 0
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Circulations of Catherine II (Empress of Russia), the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)
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*Presence in catalogue 1832 -
*Presence in catalogue 1832 -

Receptions of Catherine II (Empress of Russia), the person

For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.

Title Author Date Type
*Letter to D'Alembert (first) Catherine II (Empress of Russia) , Catherine II (Empress of Russia) 1762 references person
Les Morlaques Wynne, Giustiniana 1788 is dedicated to
La Vie de Cathérine II, impératrice de Russie The life of Catherine II, empress of Russia Jean-Henri Castéra 1797 is biography of
Ode sur la mort de Catherine II Marie Caroline Murray 1798 is obituary of
Het leeven van Catharina de II, Keizerin van Rusland Joannes van der Linden 1798 is biography of
Raspuskaiushchaiasia Roza ili Raznye sochineniia v proze i stikhakh The Unfolding Rose or Various Works in Poetry and Prose Murzina, Aleksandra Petrovna 1799 is dedicated to
Antwoord van Catharina de II aan den Marschalk Romantzof Unknown translator (to be identified) 1806 quotes person
*Art. Vaderlandsche Letteroefeningen Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1812 -
Uit den geestenwereld Unknown journalist (to be identified) 1860 comments on person
De laatste levensdagen van Catharina II H.M.M. Rappard 1860 is biography of
La segunda Catalina, lumbrera de la Rusia (The second Catherine, beacon of Russia) León, Rogelia 1866 comments on person
Literarno delovanje ruske cesarice Katarine II The Literary Activity of Russian Empress Catherine II Bratina, Janko 1905 comments on person
Ruska književnost l. 1907 Russian Literature - Year 1907 Miklavec, Peter 1908 -
Zaslužne žene na peru The Worthy Women of Letters Popović, Anđelija 1913 -
Antoni Albertrandi, after Fyodor Rokotov, portrait of Catherine II, 1780s, Royal Castle Warsaw None is portrait of

- Golitsyn, Slovar', 1889
- Lettres européennes (Dutch version 1994) II, 591, 663-6, 815
- Clyman/Greene (40)
- The Memoirs of Catherine the Great. A new translation by Mark Cruse and Hilde Hoogenboom. New York, 2006.

eg aug 10

1 son, 1 illegitimate son, 1 illegitimate daughter.

Clyman/Greene (40): The most prolific and powerful woman writing in eighteenth-century Russia.

KLK 1904