Evelyn Anthony - Curse Not The King - 2015 [EN]

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"Curse Not the King by Evelyn Anthony" is a Unknown title in English, distributed as a EPUB file (1.9 MB). Written by Evelyn Anthony. The book spans approximately 332 pages with 106,354 words. The tale of the treacherous battle for the throne between Catherine the Great and her son Paul, set against the backdrop of late-eighteenth-century Russia The year is 1773. Catherine the Great has been in power for a decade. Since the assassination of her husband, Peter III, in a coup d'état, she has been empress of all the Russias. She rules with enlightenment and grace, driven by ambition and her secret dream to free Russia's millions of serfs. Tonight she is celebrating the wedding of her son Paul Petrovitch. He was nine—and the rightful heir to the throne—when Peter died and Catherine s...

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CategoryBooks

LanguageEnglish (EN)

GenreFiction, Romance, Historical Fiction

QualityEPUB

Size1.9 MB

Pages332

ArchivedSep 9, 2026

Synopsis

The popular conception of Paul is best summed up in the words of his son’s biographer, Paléologue, who excuses Alexander on the grounds that he was the son of that “suspicious degenerate, at once cruel and grotesque, that monster, that Death’s Head, who was known as Paul the First”. My study of Paul’s life has convinced me that this verdict is untrue. I have found no record of Paul’s attendance at Potemkin’s last ball, though the descriptions are those of eye-witnesses, but I have assumed that o