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.

Therefore, players looking to dominate their maps through culture, diplomacy, and the arts should not overlook Catherine the Great. Known for championing the arts, Catherine’s real-life ...

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 ...

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He also writes many of the magazine's celebrity tributes. "He did not have an entirely bad heart," Catherine the Great wrote of her wastrel husband, Czar Peter III, "but a weak man usually does not." ...

The Hulu original, which describes itself as the “occasionally true story” of Russia’s longest-reigning female ruler Catherine the Great, was met with heaps of praise on Twitter for its ...

One could even say it’s great. The Great is the second recent high-profile limited series about the life of Catherine the Great, the first of which was the four-episode HBO miniseries starring ...