War and Peace · secondary
Catherine
historical · female
Empress of Russia known for her significant influence and reforms.
Aliases
Catherine the Great
Appearances
- First: Book FIFTEEN · Chapter XI · ¶ 1
- Latest: Book SECOND EPILOGUE · Chapter IV · ¶ 25
Quotations
“conforming to a custom of Catherine’s day”
“the life of the nation, which is evident nonsense; but if it is only some particular side of the activity of an historical leader which serves to express the people’s life, as other so-called 'philosophical' historians believe, then to determine which side of the activity of a leader expresses the nation’s life, we have first of all to know in what the nation’s life consists.”