Puttin On Airs 3 Year Anniversary - Catherine The Great!

The boys pay tribute to Val Kilmer in lihgt of his tragic death and then spend a good hour up their own butts talking about cinema before professor CHO jumps in with a history lesson on Catherine The Great!

Sources:

Books:

• Massie, Robert K. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman. Random House, 2011.

• Rounding, Virginia. Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power. St. Martin’s Press, 2006.

• Montefiore, Simon Sebag. The Romanovs: 1613–1918. Knopf, 2016.

• Catherine II. Memoirs of Catherine the Great. Translated by Mark Cruse and Hilde Hoogenboom, Modern Library, 2005.

Letters

• Correspondence with Voltaire and Diderot. Many of their letters to and from Catherine are collected in academic volumes and archives.

Academic Articles & Journals:

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Online

• Encyclopædia Britannica. “Catherine the Great.”britannica.com

• HistoryExtra (BBC).

• Hermitage Museum Official Website.

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