Table of contents for Five empresses : court life in eighteenth-century Russia / Evgenii V. Anisimov ; translated by Kathleen Carol.

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Acknowledgments                                                 vii

Chapter 1   The Cinderella from Livland                          1
            (Catherine I)
Chapter 2   The Poor Relative Who Became Empress                55
            (Anna Ioannovna)
Chapter 3   The Secret Prisoner and Her Children               127
            (Anna Leopol'dovna)
Chapter 4   The Russian Aphrodite                              171
            (Elizabeth)
Chapter 5   The Sovereign of the North                         239
            (Catherine the Great)

Notes                                                          355
Index                                                          369