For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress — who reigned from 1762 ...

Taken from Catherine at birth and raised by his great aunt, Empress Elizabeth, and tutor, Minister Panin, Paul never formed a loving relationship with Catherine. The brutal, conniving and ambitious ...

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 and heir to the Russian throne.

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National Geographic Icons of Power Empress of Ambition documents the life and reign of Russias Catherine the Great widely considered one of the most controversial ...

In 1717, Peter the Great commissioned a building for his wife, Catherine, who succeeded ... when their daughter, the Empress Elizabeth, engaged a series of architects to expand upon it.

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 that ...