Both Uses of
Catherine the Great
in
The Age of Innocence
- The guests had been selected with a boldness and discrimination in which the initiated recognised the firm hand of Catherine the Great.†
Chpt 6 *
- In this unfashionable region Catherine the Great, always indifferent to precedent and thrifty of purse, had built herself in her youth a many-peaked and cross-beamed cottage-orne on a bit of cheap land overlooking the bay.†
Chpt 21
Definition:
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(Catherine the Great) empress of Russia who greatly increased the territory of the empire (1729-1796)