It was in that coup that Catherine met one of her many ... Massie says that he's going to miss the company of Catherine the Great — the little girl with aspirations, the frustrated young woman ...

Vigilius Eriksen's coronation portrait of Catherine the Great Public domain via Wikimedia Commons These tensions culminated in a July 9, 1762, coup. Catherine—flanked by Orlov and her growing ...

A new, 10-part miniseries follows the exploits of the Russian empress who rose to power in a coup against her own husband. The Great is shrewdly entertaining — if not exactly historically accurate.

Shortly after Ivan VI and his regent showed up, Elizabeth and her co-conspirators pulled the trigger on another coup that deposed the baby and placed Peter the Great and Catherine I’s formerly ...

Upwardly nobleThe future Catherine the Great, Sophie, moved to the ducal castle ... the childless Romanov staged a midnight coup, imprisoned the infant tsar Ivan VI, and began a reign marked ...

Catherine the Great's 34-year reign in Russia was as full ... Catherine came to power by overthrowing her husband in a coup, so needless to say, the men of 18th-century Russia were not exactly ...

There was a dark side to Catherine I of Russia’s romance with Peter the Great—but “twisted” doesn’t even begin to describe his disturbing nickname for her.

Catherine the Great moved to a foreign land as a teenager ... Peter III was deposed in a coup d'état. Eight days later, he was killed while in the custody of one of Catherine's co-conspirators.

Did Catherine the Great Kill Her Husband? Funeral procession for Peter III ... While Peter’s mysterious death cast something of a cloud over his wife’s audacious coup, the German princess with no ...