
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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