About the book: year / "In Paris the other day, a new book concerning Russian history was a great success. This book is called “Le Roman d'une impératrice. Catherine II de Russie". Its author is K. Waliszewski. This is a large volume of 600 pages, compiled on the basis of unpublished archival documents, memoirs, correspondence of the great Russian Empress and a mass of printed material, and the extensive literature on the subject, Russian and foreign, is known to the author in its smallest details. The author’s erudition was happily combined with his writing talent and ability to tell stories in a lively and entertaining way.…»