tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post7572024961528737305..comments2024-03-26T12:19:52.801-04:00Comments on Tea at Trianon: Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Womanelena maria vidalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-89912780629260279982012-12-31T21:10:43.722-05:002012-12-31T21:10:43.722-05:00This is the most wonderful book I read the year , ...This is the most wonderful book I read the year , the way the book is written, you feel like you are next to Catherine living with her. In my personal opinion she really was great, after reading this book I wish I can go to Russia and Saint Petersburg one day, to go to the museums where you can see all the art, to see the castles, for now I am a mental traveler, but in the future if God permit me I will go...!!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07233308131710832962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-74489857303262476202012-12-31T19:13:17.217-05:002012-12-31T19:13:17.217-05:00I have greatly admired Catherine the Great since r...I have greatly admired Catherine the Great since reading as many biographies of her as I could get my hands on when I was a teen girl. She was a role model to me, this beautiful, powerful, highly intellectual and accomplished woman with a roster of accomplishments that it still makes me feel exhausted and inadequate to read. I hated the way she was treated by historians, who too often depicted her as, variously, a power-hungry harpy, a nymphomaniac, and a probable murderess. <br /><br />The feminist movement discovered her fairly early on, and it was only because of the movement that so many women have heard about her and her achievements. <br /><br />She was an absolutely spectacular woman in every respect, no matter what flaws she may have had, and who does not have flaws? As much as I feel for Marie Antoinette and consider her to have been a fine, intelligent, and upright person, I can't place her in the same pantheon as Catherine, though I can place Antoinette's mother, the equally formidable Maria Theresa, in that rarified class. The North Coasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14292115710427172625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-91881044223092767312012-12-31T11:06:20.225-05:002012-12-31T11:06:20.225-05:00Thanks for the wonderful review. I am a fan of Ma...Thanks for the wonderful review. I am a fan of Massie's books.julygirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07008279978165536349noreply@blogger.com