Catherine the Great – The later years (Part five)
Read part four here. Catherine saw her son as her rival, and she never gave him a role in government. Despite this, he and his […]
Catherine the Great
Catherine the Great – Ruling an Empire (Part four)
Read part three here. Catherine enforced her success by rewarding those who helped to put her on the throne, including the church and the army. […]
Catherine the Great – The coup that made her Empress in her own right (Part three)
Read part two here. As Empress Elizabeth’s health deteriorated, Catherine found herself pregnant with Gregory Orlov’s child, and she began to seclude herself. Peter was […]
Catherine the Great – An Empress-in-waiting (Part two)
Read part one here. Sophie had arrived at the Russian court as a 14-year-old German Princess to marry the 15-year-old Grand Duke Peter – heir […]
Catherine the Great – The little-known German Princess (Part one)
In the early hours of 2 May 1729, 16-year-old Princess Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein Gottorp, wife of the 39-year-old Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, gave […]
The Great Series Review – A comedy in corsets
SPOILER ALERT The Great promises to be a comedy loosely based on the life of Catherine the Great. When they say loosely, they mean it. […]