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Primary Sources: Russian Emperors: Catherine II

1721–1917; often titled Tsar or Tsarina/Tsaritsa

Online Sources: Catherine II (the Great)

Book Sources: Catherine II (the Great)

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Correspondence of Catherine the Great when Grand Duchess with Sir Charles Hanbury Williams and Letters from Count Poniatowski by Edited and translated by the Earl of Ilchester and Mrs Langford-Brooke
Call Number: Online - free - Internet Archive
The Despatches and Correspondence of John, Second Earl of Buckinghamshire by John Hobart, 2d earl of Buckinghamshire
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Ambassador to the Court of Catherine II of Russia 1762-1765 / ed. ... with introduction and notes, by Adelaid D'Arcy Collyer.
Diaries and Correspondence of James Harris, First Earl of Malmesbury by James Harris Malmesbury
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Documents of Catherine the Great by Catherine II
Call Number: DK168 .C3 2012
ISBN: 110769485X
The Correspondence with Voltaire and the Instruction of 1767 in the English text of 1768
The Grand Instructions to the Commissioners Appointed to Frame a New Code of Laws for the Russian Empire by Michael Tatischeff
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Love and Conquest by Catherine II; Grigoriaei Aleksandrovich Potemkin; Douglas Smith (Editor, Translator)
Call Number: DK170 .A2 2004
ISBN: 0875803245
Personal Correspondence of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigory Potemkin
Edited and translated by Douglas Smith.
Memoirs and Recollections of Count Segur, Ambassador from France to the Courts of Russia and Prussia by Louis-Philippe, Comte de Ségur
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
The Memoirs of Catherine the Great by Catherine the Great
Call Number: DK170 .C3213 2006
ISBN: 0812969871
Memoirs of Countess Golovine
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
A Lady at the Court of Catherine II / translated from the French by G.M. Fox-Davies.
Memoirs of the Empress Catharine II by Catherine II (Empress of Russia), Aleksandr Herzen
Call Number: Online - free - Google Books
Memoirs of the Princess Daschkaw
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Lady of Honour to Catherine II, Empress of all the Russias. Written by herself, comprising letters of the Empress and other correspondence. Edited from the originals by Mrs. W. Bradford.
Mémoires de l'impératrice Catherine II by Catherine II
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Language: French
The Prince de Ligne : His Memoirs, Letters, and Miscellaneous Papers by Katharine Prescott Wormeley (selected and translated by)
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Secret Memoirs of the Court of Petersburg, particularly towards the end of the reign of Catharine II and the Commencement of that of Paul I by Charles François Philibert Masson
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
A View of the Russian Empire during the Reign of Catharine the Second and to the close of the Eighteenth Century by William Tooke
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

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