Prince Grigory Potemkin, was a favourite and, indeed, a lover of Catherine the Great – one of many, for she was sexually insatiable. He decided to try to win her favour during her visit to the Crimea ...

A culture war raging within the Black Sea port over statues of hometown heroes Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel will shape ...

The blossom-scented harbor promenade and Potemkin steps that enchanted Evans echo to Ukrainian ... It was always a place of migrants, and more than the southern imperial riviera capital of Catherine ...

At the top of the Potemkin Steps in Odessa, the most famous staircase in cinema history, a statue of the Duc de Richelieu stands on the corniche of Primorsky Boulevard. Richelieu, a French ...

Empress Catherine the Great believed that Voinovich was not ... intended to support Field Marshal Grigory Potemkin’s army in the Lower Danube. On September 5, Ushakov took the Sevastopol ...

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

Seth Rogen and Catherine O’Hara kicked off awards season ... corporate overlords in the ever-elusive pursuit of making great films,” per the synopsis. “As someone who eats, sleeps, and ...

In “The Waiting Game,” the historian Nicola Clark tells a lively and vivid story of the women who served Henry VIII’s queens.

The Apple TV+ satirical comedy about the inner workings of Hollywood debuts March 26. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief “Fuck, what is happening to this town? I remember when the red carpet ...

In 1717, Peter the Great commissioned a building for his wife, Catherine, who succeeded him after his death, but her namesake palace only began taking on its grand stature in 1743, when their ...

She was later invited to both William and Harry’s weddings, with her son Tom serving as a page boy at William's wedding to Princess Catherine in 2011. The Prince of Wales took to social media on ...

The couple – who married in 2000 – were forced to spend a great deal of 2024 apart, with Catherine shooting season two of Wednesday in Ireland. Catherine was forced to spend seven months ...