# Catherine the Great

Author: Anthony, Katharine Susan, 1877-1965

Genre: Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77133

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Catherine+the+Great+Anthony&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Early in the eighteenth century, the north German town of Stettin had all the grim and rigid characteristics of a frontier post. It was a border town and had long been a center of warfare. The broad rich lands of Pomerania, bursting with fertility, had been repeatedly devastated by the march and countermarch of Russian and Prussian soldiers. High on a strip of barren coast, the gray stone walls of Stettin overlooked a bleak northern sea over which the boats of the great Russian Peter had come sailing to batter and destroy the town. But if Stettin had trembled before Peter, who was six and a half feet tall, it had trembled even more before Frederick William who was so short that his childr...

## Chapters

- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/catherine-the-great-77133/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/catherine-the-great-77133/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/catherine-the-great-77133/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/catherine-the-great-77133/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/catherine-the-great-77133/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/catherine-the-great-77133/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/catherine-the-great-77133/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/catherine-the-great-77133/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/catherine-the-great-77133/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/catherine-the-great-77133/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/catherine-the-great-77133/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/catherine-the-great-77133/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/catherine-the-great-77133/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/catherine-the-great-77133/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/catherine-the-great-77133/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/catherine-the-great-77133/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/catherine-the-great-77133/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/catherine-the-great-77133/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/catherine-the-great-77133/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/catherine-the-great-77133/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/catherine-the-great-77133/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/catherine-the-great-77133/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/catherine-the-great-77133/chapters/23/index.md)