The Tsarina's Lost Treasure: Catherine the Great, a Golden Age Masterpiece, and a Legendary Shipwreck

by Mara Vorhees and Gerald Easter

Book Overview

A riveting history and maritime adventure about priceless masterpieces originally destined for Catherine the Great.

On October 1771, a merchant ship out of Amsterdam, Vrouw Maria, crashed off the stormy Finnish coast, taking her historic cargo to the depths of the Baltic Sea. The vessel was delivering a dozen Dutch masterpiece paintings to Europe's most voracious collector: Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia. Among...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643135562
• ISBN13: 9781643135564
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.8" x 9.1"