Today's installment concludes Reign of Catherine the Great,our selection by W. Knox Johnson.If you have journeyed through all of the

Yet here were these declaimers threatening to overrun Europe, and "Equality setting peoples at the throats of kings!"Continuing Reign of Catherine

But her attention soon became diverted. She was not, as Gunning thought, insincere, only fickle; she wanted patience and continuity of

Such was the tragedy of Peter III. He dies, as Catherine said, unpitied: a fool, echo her friends, who perished in his folly.Continuing Reign of

After Voltaire and Madame de Sévigné, came Montesquieu, Baronius, Tacitus, Bayle, Brantôme, and the early volumes of the Encyclopædia.Continuing