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Catherine the Great, Russian Yekaterina Velikaya, also called Catherine II, Russian in full Yekaterina Alekseyevna, original name Sophie Friederike Auguste, Prinzessin von Anhalt-Zerbst, (born April 21 [May 2, New Style], 1729, Stettin, Prussia [now Szczecin, Poland]—died November 6 [November 17], 1796, Tsarskoye Selo [now Pushkin], near St ...
The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934) is a film starring Elisabeth Bergner and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Lubitsch remade his 1924 silent film as the sound film A Royal Scandal (1945), also known as Czarina. Mae West published Catherine Was Great in 1944, starring in it then and in subsequent productions.
Catherine the Great is a monarch mired in misconception. Derided both in her day and in modern times as a hypocritical warmonger with an unnatural sexual appetite, Catherine was a woman of...
Catherine II, also known as Catherine the Great, was an empress of Russia who ruled from 1762-1796, the longest reign of any female Russian leader. Known more for her affairs of the heart than...
The woman whom history would remember as Catherine the Great, Russia’s longest-ruling female leader, was actually the eldest daughter of an impoverished Prussian prince. Born in 1729, Sophie...
Catherine the Great is said to have had about a dozen lovers throughout her reign — she was a “serial monogamist,” as Montefiore puts it — but Grigory Potemkin was the love of her life. She met...
Catherine the Great (May 2, 1729–Nov. 17, 1796) was empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796, the longest reign of any female Russian leader. She expanded Russia's borders to the Black Sea and into central Europe during her reign. She also promoted westernization and modernization for her country, though it was within the context of maintaining ...
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Catherine II, most commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. She came to power after over... Wikipedia
- April 21, 1729, Szczecin, Poland
- November 17, 1796, Winter Palace, Russia
- Peter III of Russia (m 1745 - 1762), Grigory Potemkin
- Alexander Vasilchikov, Stanisław August Poniatowski, Grigory Potemkin, Grigory Orlov
- Catherine the Great, Paul I of Russia, Elizabeth Grigorieva Temkina
- Catherine the Great, Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp, Peter III of Russia, Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst
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