Susan Jaques is a journalist specializing in art. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read The Empress of Art. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Petersburg, and the magnificent architectural wonder the city became is largely her doing. Susan Jaques is a journalist specializing in art. The Empress of Art - Ebook written by Susan Jaques. Catherine also spearheaded the further expansion of St. She was a self-proclaimed "glutton for art" and she would be responsible for the creation of the Hermitage, one of the largest museums in the world, second only to the Louvre. She felt that the best way to do this was through a ravenous acquisition of art, which Catherine often used as a form of diplomacy with other powers throughout Europe. Intelligent and determined, Catherine modeled herself off of her grandfather in-law, Peter the Great, and sought to further modernize and westernize Russia. She then staged a coup that ended with him being strangled with his own scarf in the halls of the palace, and she being crowned the Empress of Russia. A German princess who married a decadent and lazy Russian prince, she mobilized support amongst the nobles, playing off of her husband's increasing corruption and abuse of power. This is an art-oriented biograph of the mighty Catherine the Great, who rose from seemingly innocuous beginnings.
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