Report, if you have a problem with this page“ Books were her refuge. Having set herself to learn the Russian language, she read every Russian book she could find. But French was the language she preferred, and she read French books indiscriminately, picking up whatever her ladies-in-waiting happened to be reading. She always kept a book in her room and carried another in her pocket. ”
Robert K. Massie
From : Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
