Nicholas and Alexandra

A Ballantine Book

Published by The Random House Publishing Group

Copyright © 1967 by Robert K. Massie

Copyright renewed 1995 by Robert K. Massi

Introduction copyright © 2000 by Robert K. Massie

Excerpt from Catherine the Great copyright © 2011 by Robert K. Massie.

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published by Atheneum Publishers in 1967.

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This book contains an excerpt from Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie. This excerpt has been set for this edition only and may not reflect the final content of the forthcoming book.

eISBN: 978-0-307-78847-4

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