Catherine the Great © Catherine II was Empress of Russia for more than 30 years and one of the country’s most influential rulers.

Once the upstart foreigner stole Russia’s throne, there was no stopping her enlightened reforms, her empire's expansion, and her pursuit of love and legacy. Holding courtCatherine II of Russia ...

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Art writer Jaques (A Love for the Beautiful) portrays Catherine II of Russia (1729–1796), founder of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, as a shrewd investor in this considerate biography of ...

Minted in Russia in 1763, this denga was issued under Catherine II, better known as Catherine the Great. Born Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg, she changed her name to Ekaterina ...

Following her husband’s death, Catherine was crowned Empress of Russia without one drop of Russian blood in her veins.

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 ...

The newly installed monument does not, as it happens, actually depict Suvorov, but rather Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, crowned Catherine II, empress regnant of Russia, and better known as Catherine ...

This has bolstered Russia’s claim over the peninsula – something spearheaded by the conquest and annexation of Crimea by Catherine II (“the Great”) in 1783 and renewed by Vladimir Putin in ...

“You are the heirs of Great Russia: Great Russia of saints, rulers, Great Russia of Peter I, Catherine II, that empire — great, enlightened, of great culture and great humanity.” ...

The monument to the Russian Empress Catherine II in Odessa causes a lot of controversy among Ukrainians, especially after the Russian invasion, which is why the statue is often vandalized with red ...