in his book "Catherine the Great" (Profile Books, 2009). He noted that with the death of the Polish king, Augustus III, in 1763, she was able to put one of her lovers, Stanislaw Poniatowski ...

Helen Mirren plays the titular monarch in 'Catherine the Great,' the latest HBO/Sky miniseries ... led to rumors about her countless lovers and, most notoriously, a tall tale involving the illicit ...

In 1745, after being received into the Russian Orthodox Church, and changing her name to Catherine, she married Grand Duke Peter, grandson of Peter the Great ... a series of lovers whom she ...

She never married again, and took numerous lovers during her long reign. 4. Voltaire was basically Catherine the Great's pen pal. Catherine, a bibliophile, built up a collection of 44,000 books.

Dr Kelly O’Neill, an historian of Russia at Harvard University, and the author of Claiming Crimea: A History of Catherine the Great’s Southern Empire ... Having dumped her weak husband, she deployed ...