For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress - who reigned from ...
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.
It is also a love story between the most extraordinary woman and man of the age. The longest-serving female ... and his mother’s new lovers. Taken from Catherine at birth and raised by his great aunt, ...
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 ...
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 ...