The upcoming release of Civilization VII has sparked controversy online, particularly regarding the inclusion of Russian ...

Firaxis Games revealed the Russian faction in Civilization 7 led by Empress Catherine the Great. The abilities presented are Prosveshchenie, Dusha, Ge ...

So, who was the Russian empress, truly? Click on to discover more about the 18th century’s most powerful woman. Catherine the Great moved to a foreign land as a teenager and became one of the ...

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

For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress - who reigned ... a significant collector of Imperial Russia-era art.

The Empress Catherine collected her jewels and the ... The possession of Constantinople will, in time, if realized, make Russia great at sea. She would have the Black Sea, the Marmora, the ...

Over the next two decades it became Russia’s equivalent of Amazon. Customers from Siberia to the Crimean Peninsula (which was ...

Denis Diderot, at Catherine the Great’s insistent invitation ... compromised himself by writing an adulatory history of Peter the Great, relying largely on material supplied by the Empress Elizaveta.) ...

Even in the company of her peers – Queen Elizabeth I of England, Queen Christiana of Sweden, the empress Maria ... sobriquet ‘the Great’, Catherine, like Peter the Great, polarises biographers. Most ...

The Toleration Act of 1689 finally allowed religious freedom to the hard core of Dissenters who had come into existence ...

Once mistaken for her actor sister, Dakota, Elle Fanning has stepped into the spotlight, playing opposite Timothée Chalamet ...