By Influence & Desire
Pflaum, Rosalynd
Out of the pages of European history comes a story as colorful and torrid as any modern fiction the never-been-told-before-told account of the lives of the grand duchess of Courland and her daughters Wilhelmina and Dorothea. By Influence and Desire is the story of how these independent, intelligent women helped shape the course of history in the only way open to them in the boudoirs of Paris, Vienna, Saint Petersburg and Berlin. Catherine the ...