Екатерина I

Pervai͡a russkai͡a imperatrit͡sa Ekaterina Alekseevna (1725-1727) ne prinadlezhala k chislu vydai͡ushchikhsi͡a gosudarstvennykh dei͡ateleĭ, ona t͡sarstvovala, no ne upravli͡ala. Tem ne menee Ekaterinu, nesomnenno, mozhno nazvatʹ lichnostʹi͡u nezauri͡adnoĭ. Byvshai͡a 'portomoi͡a' i sluzhanka pastora Gli͡uka, plennit͡sa snachala felʹdmarshala B. P. Sheremeteva, a zatem A. D. Menshikova, ona stala zakonnoĭ suprugoĭ t͡sari͡a Petra I, a posle ego smerti byla vozvedena na russkiĭ prestol. Ob udivitelʹnoĭ sudʹbe ėtoĭ zhenshchiny i o vnutrenneĭ i vneshneĭ politike Rossii v gody ee t͡sarstvovanii͡a rasskazyvaet v svoeĭ knige krupneĭshiĭ znatok Petrovskoĭ ėpokhi i priznannyĭ klassik istoriko-biograficheskogo zhanra N. I. Pavlenko. V kachestve prilozhenii͡a k knige polnostʹi͡u publikuetsi͡a perepiska Petra I i Ekateriny, kotorui͡u t͡sarstvennye suprugi veli na proti͡azhenii dvukh desi͡atkov let.

The first Russian Empress Catherine Alexeyevna (1725-1727) was not one of the outstanding statesmen, she reigned, but did not rule. Nevertheless, Catherine, undoubtedly, can be called an outstanding personality. A former "portomoy" and servant of Pastor Gluck, a prisoner of first Field Marshal B. P. Sheremetev, and then A. D. Menshikov, she became the lawful wife of Tsar Peter I, and after his death was elevated to the Russian throne. N. I. Pavlenko, the greatest expert of the Peter the Great era and a recognized classic of the historical and biographical genre, tells about the amazing fate of this woman and about the domestic and foreign policy of Russia during her reign. As an appendix to the book, the correspondence of Peter I and Catherine, which the royal spouses conducted for two decades, is fully published.