“The Winter Palace,” a novel about Catherine the Great, by Eva Stachniak
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THE WINTER PALACE
By Eva Stachniak
Bantam. 444 pp. $26
Catherine the Great, the much-mythologized empress of 18th-century Russia, has long been a popular subject for biographers, starring most recently in Robert K. Massie's magnificently readable "Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman" (2011). She has also enjoyed strong representation on film, having been opulently portrayed by Marlene Dietrich and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Yet in historical fiction, there have been curiously few portraits of the long-reigning tsarina, with the exception of a few offerings that include a Romanov trilogy by British author Evelyn Anthony, published in the 1950s.
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Sari Horwitz, William Wan and, Del Quentin Wilber 18 Feb, 2012
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