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Catherine's major influences on her adopted country were in expanding Russia's borders and continuing the process of Westernisation begun by Peter the Great. During her reign she extended the ...

For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress — who reigned from 1762 to 1796 after overthrowing her own husband, Peter III — understood ...

Grigory Potemkin is the love of Catherine’s life and the most powerful man in the Russian empire ... Taken from Catherine at birth and raised by his great aunt, Empress Elizabeth, and tutor, Minister ...