Massie has come out with a new book about Catherine the Great. Robert Massie ... architecture and art. Under her leadership, Russia modernized, expanded its empire and became accepted as one ...

Yusupov. Simply put, Catherine wanted “the best”, as reflected in her high-profile, controversial purchase of the famous art collections of Pierre Crozat and Robert Walpole in the 1770s.

The art was only an example ... The main source text for this article was Catherine the Great, Portrait of a Woman (2011), by Robert K Massie, published by Random House. Judith Armstrong will ...

LUNENBURG — Catherine Karp, of Pepperell, has had a love of sewing since she was 6 years old. She recently retired from teaching art in elementary schools for over 25 years, and is now excited ...

as Robert Massie puts it, “fearful, deceitful, antagonistic, boastful, cowardly, deceptive and cruel”. Preferring anything to the continued company of her mother, Catherine decided to make the ...

Her early work, inspired partly by photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's examination ... A new exhibition at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Catherine Opie: Binding Ties, presents some of these ...