Catherine: The Great Journey Russia 1743 (The Royal Diaries)

About this book

Scholastic is proud to present the final installment of The Royal Diaries series. Drama and intrigue explode in the story of young Princess Catherines incredible journey to greatness. Fourteen-year-old Prussian princess Sophia finds herself entangled in her mothers efforts to arrange a marriage between Sophia and Charles-Peter a young German duke and nephew of the Russian empress Elizabeth. As Sophias mother moves to make the match she and Sophia must travel from their humble home in Zerbst Prussia to Russia--the kingdom of Elizabeth. There Sophia is renamed Catherine and married to Charles-Peter but she watches helplessly as her family is torn from her her own mother is involved in a spying ring against the empress and all that is familiar to her disappears.