Tsarina – Q&A with author Ellen Alpsten
Tsarina by Ellen Alpsten is a novel of the story of Catherine I of Russia, born a peasant named Marta Helena Skowrońska, who became the […]
Catherine I of Russia
The Tsar Peter House
This little wooden house hardly inspires visions of Peter the Great but he stayed here several times. The house was built in 1632 for a […]
Raising Royalty: 1000 Years of Royal Parenting by Carolyn Harris Book Review
How royal parents dealt with raising their children over the past thousand years, from keeping Vikings at bay to fending off paparazzi. William and Kate, […]
Empresses of All Russia – Catherine I
The origins of the future Catherine I of Russia are rather obscure. She was probably born as Marta Helena Skowrońska on 15 April 1684. Her parents died […]
Anna Leopoldovna’s children and the Russian succession
To understand the situation Anna Leopoldovna’s daughters, or rather yet all four of her children, ended up in, we must begin at the beginning. In […]