THE HEALTH HISTORY OF CATHERINE THE GREAT



“Catherine was sixty-seven, proud in disposition and brilliant in intelligence to the last. In her diary she writes: If I may be allowed the expression, I venture to assert, in my own behalf, that I was a true gentleman one whose cast of mind was more male than female; and yet I was anything but masculine, for, joined to the mind and character of a man, I possessed the charms of a very agreeable woman”.

James Kemble