there's just one of the younger monarchs who manages the Fritzian mixture of being a reformer and a magnificent bastard, and it's not you.
Wait, who?
Catherine herself! Catherine was a big reformer and a magnificent bastard. Remember, at the partition of Poland, when MT was having scruples, Fritz wrote, "Catherine and I are simply brigands, but I wonder how the Empress-Queen managed to square her confessor."
Also, from Catherine's verse in the epic rap battles of history:
You're unbalanced like I unbalanced the European powers with the wars I waged. I brought the Russian empire straight out the olden days and right into the golden age.
She wasn't called Catherine the Great for nothing! (Being a magnificent bastard often gets you called Great much faster than being straight out upstanding. :P)
And what is the new biography (is it available in English)?
Was wondering the same thing, for future reference when books and I are friends again.
A conqueror of the world can not do that.
Have I mentioned lately how much I love your translations? Also, this particular line seems a little pointed towards Fritz...?
Re: speaking of musical relationships....
Wait, who?
Catherine herself! Catherine was a big reformer and a magnificent bastard. Remember, at the partition of Poland, when MT was having scruples, Fritz wrote, "Catherine and I are simply brigands, but I wonder how the Empress-Queen managed to square her confessor."
Also, from Catherine's verse in the epic rap battles of history:
You're unbalanced like I unbalanced the European powers with the wars I waged.
I brought the Russian empire straight out the olden days and right into the golden age.
She wasn't called Catherine the Great for nothing! (Being a magnificent bastard often gets you called Great much faster than being straight out upstanding. :P)
And what is the new biography (is it available in English)?
Was wondering the same thing, for future reference when books and I are friends again.
A conqueror of the world can not do that.
Have I mentioned lately how much I love your translations? Also, this particular line seems a little pointed towards Fritz...?
ETA: It struck me that way too.