The story of a throne (Catherine II. of Russia) Book

Reading this interesting memoir, I think, was a bit tough due to its length and innumerable important persons involved as narrated in her account; therefore, this extract should suffice to those keen future readers:

… Begun nine years after her accession, this is the apologia for her course of action leading to the coup d’etat in 1762 and the deposition of her husband. Her account contains the intimate revelations of a woman of astonishing complexity; a woman whose ruthless schemes for Russian world leadership; a woman intellectually conscious of the nature of her moral lapses, yet emotionally incapable of resisting temptation. (Front flap)