Eva Stachniak

The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great (2012)

I just read a fantastic book that was fun and light based on Catherine the Great. It is called Queen Of Someday, it is based on Catherine as a teenager and the start of how she became ruler. I understand it is a young adult read and may not be very historically accurate but I enjoyed myself immen...

Der Winterpalast (2012)

"The Winter Palace" is a marvelous historic novel of young Catherine The Great as told from the perspective of a court spy (or tongue as they were called). Varvara tells a moving story of her friendship with the Empress in the years before her rise to power. She offers us a glimpse of what court...

Die Zarin der Nacht (2014)

Maybe this wasn't one of the best writing novels i had ever read, but this had one of the best messages. It learnt a lot about power, about being powerful. And sometimes this is something we really need. In most of that world, there are usually two kind of people: leaders and submitters. And Cath...

Necessary Lies (2000)

Garden of Venus (2005)