The novel’s complex structure and huge cast of characters called for a narrator with an impressive range, and Pozniak certainly delivered. As the suffering monarch lives out her final hours, she recalls her heartbreaks and triumphs in love and politics, flashing back to various vignettes of her tumultuous life. The book opens with Catherine suffering the stroke that will soon kill her. But whereas The Winter Palace employed the clever narrative device of using Catherine’s faithful servant Varvara to tell her tale, in Empress of the Night Catherine herself takes center stage as she relives her astonishing ascension from unlikely princess to the most powerful and feared woman of her time. Audiobook narrated by Beata PoźniakĪ follow up to Stachniak’s bestselling The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great, also narrated by Poźniak, Empress of the Night continues the story of how a shy awkward German princess named Sophie became the powerful Catherine the Great. Advertisement “Empress of the Night: A Novel of Catherine the Great” by Eva Stachniak RANDOM HOUSE Audio.
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