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Jul 9, 2012 · Here are eight lesser-known facts about the indomitable Russian empress: 1. Catherine the Great’s name wasn’t Catherine, and she wasn’t even Russian. The woman whom history would remember as...
Elizabeth, empress of Russia from 1741 to 1761 (1762, New Style). She encouraged the development of education and art, founding Russia’s first university and the Academy of Arts and building the extravagant Winter Palace. During her reign Russia’s prestige as a major European power grew.
Aug 22, 2023 · Catherine the Great overthrows Peter III of Russia and is proclaimed Russian empress by the Russian Imperial Army. 22 Sep 1762 Catherine is formally crowned Empress Catherine II of Russia .
u. v. w. x. y. z. Catherine the Great © Catherine II was Empress of Russia for more than 30 years and one of the country’s most influential rulers. Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst ...
Mar 16, 2023 · Summoned to Russia, the 14-year-old bride-to-be treated the young duke as her “master” and worked to please the empress. Sophie took the Russian name Catherine (Ekaterina), converted from ...
Nov 1, 2019 · Idealistic and tough, Catherine the Great sought to modernize Russia. The German-born empress was an astute politician who expanded Russia’s borders while trying to restructure the government ...
Because Russia under her rule grew strong enough to threaten the other great powers, and because she was in fact a harsh and unscrupulous ruler, she figured in the Western imagination as the incarnation of the immense, backward, yet forbidding country she ruled.
