Catherine: The Great Journey, Russia, 1743

I loved "Catherine: the Great Journey!" The story reminds me a lot of "Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles" because they are really similar in their stories: they both are young girls who are sent away from home to marry young boys. In my history class, I learned about Catherine, but I had no idea that she was once named Sophie, or that she came from Prussia, near Germany! I enjoyed the story a lot, as well as learning... Read Full Review

My granddaughter loved getting this for Christmas. Nice addition to her growing library of Royal Diary books.

Another great installment of the Royal Diaries series. Sophie travels from her beloved home to Russia with her mother. In a beautiful but foreign country stuck between her ambitious and harsh mother and the strong, powerful Empress she's torn between the two. The idea of marrying Peter, who's an idiot isn't exactly her dream but the allure of weatlh and power is strong...you get a very good look at a woman who became Empress... Read Full Review

All I can say to describe this book is wow!!! It was sooo intresting and kept me reading until when I was at the end. This book was so good, heck my mom even read it in one night unable to take her eyes of it! I even recomended my friends to read it and they loved it. Now anyways, royal Catherine... well her real name is Sophie since shes from Prussia lives happily until her cruel mother wants to have power and to be known... Read Full Review

Sophie is a 14 year old princess and lives her simple life in Zerbst, Prussia. She is constantly under the burdern of her abusive mother who not only damages her emotionally but physically too. Sophie's father doesn't carry royal blood and her desperate mother is a princess from a small royal family. Sophie's damaged personality is torn adn torn each day as her mother insults her and continuously presses her to marry princes... Read Full Review