While I wouldn’t say that her story is inappropriate for younger teens, I would say that her story is infinitely better suited to an adult audience where you can take advantage of all the ready-made drama. And while possibly being involved in his death. (Even more so than Anastasia, I’d argue, since that story has acquired a lot of romantic cultural twists.) Even though it’s not true that Catherine the Great died in flagrante with a horse, she certainly did have a bunch of lovers and more or less did as she pleased after the death of her husband. It’s much shorter than most of the other books, and it’s such an odd choice since Catherine the Great is associated so strongly with licentiousness and autocratic Russian rule. This is the last installment in the Royal Diaries series (before the halfhearted relaunch), and it’s…different. And…interestingly executed, we’ll go with that.Ĭatherine: The Great Journey, Russia 1743, Kristiana Gregory, 2005.
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