empresses

Type: 
Topical Term
Subfield: 
a
Alias: 
empresses

Catherine the Great

Empress of Russia
  • Vincent, Zu
2009
A biography of Catherine the Great, discussing her eighteen-year effort to form alliances and gain power, which culminated with her seizing the throne from her husband, Peter III.

Agrippina

"atrocious and ferocious"
  • Bridges, Shirin Yim
2011
An introduction to the life of Roman empress Agrippina, who murdered and married her way to the throne and was then declared a goddess.

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