Либертинаж как способ управления государством: Екатерина II глазами маркиза де Сада

The article discusses the image of Catherine II in the context of the French anti-monarchist pamphlets that abounded after the French revolution and were often directed at the Russian empress as well, representing her as the “Semiramis of the North”. A special case is Marquis de Sadeʼs Histoire de Juliette, ou les Prospérités du vice, which unmistakably refers to Catherine