Catherine the Great

She felt the burden of absolute power: reports had to be studied, advisers consulted, decisions made.

执政弧，plot 91。

Always emphasizing his own skill and valor, Peter described the brilliant tactics he had used

彼得虚夸，cast 93。

After the first course, the curtain concealing the illuminated grand avenue was raised.

宴舞节拍，pace 88。

a stern sense of order, discipline, integrity, thrift, and piety

家风开笔，prose 91。

politically fragmented eighteenth-century Germany.

小邦地图，world 94。

hardly distinguishable in the swarm of obscure, penurious noblemen

无名起点钩，hook 90。

I beg you no longer to call me Catherine the Great, because

自我命名，innov 87。

Twenty-four years, four books . Thank you .

致编辑收束，ending 90。