Leather-bound book "The Illustrated History of Catherine II" by A.Brickner (in a case)

The book "The History of Mankind" sets itself an ambitious goal — to give the reader an idea of the diversity of history in its entirety from the appearance of man on our planet through the brilliant achievements of classical antiquity and the religious wars of the Reformation era, through the era of revolutions and industrialization to the era of the Internet. "The History of Mankind" reveals to the reader a scattering of the most important facts and main events in a concentrated form and a multicolored wealth of illustrations.The book is addressed to a wide range of readers interested in history.

The History of Catherine II" - the largest of Brickner's numerous works relating to the Catherine era, was also published first in 1883 in German in the almanac magazine V. The Allgemeine Geschichte (Universal History) was published, and in 1885 it was published in a Russian revision, including more than 300 excellent engraved illustrations. A. Brickner's voluminous work conveys in detail the spirit of the times, the formation of the personality of the Empress, the life of the "Golden Age of Catherine" full of epochal events.<\p>