CATHERINE THE GREAT AND POTEMKIN

It was history's most successful political partnership - as sensual and fiery as
it was creative and visionary. Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious pas
sion and imperial ambition. Prince Potemkin - wildly flamboyant and sublimely ta
lented - was the love of her life and her co-ruler.



Together they seized Ukra
ine and Crimea, defining the Russian empire to this day. Their affair was so tum
ultuous that they negotiated an arrangement to share power, leaving Potemkin fre
e to love his beautiful nieces, and Catherine her young male favourites. But the
se 'twin souls' never stopped loving each other.