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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

McNally as Alexei Orlov, who, with his brother Grigory, helped orchestrate the coup that brought ... Joseph Quinn as Paul, Catherine’s son and heir. Catherine the Great is produced by Origin ...

HBO’s new historical drama “Catherine the Great” stars Helen Mirren as the titular Russian queen who assumed the role following a coup that dethroned her husband, Peter III. The premiere follows ...

With his help, she staged a coup and dethroned Peter III “like a child being sent to bed”, drawing admiration from the Machiavellian Frederick the Great of Prussia. Catherine was born Sophie ...

Although they have survived more than most couples — she staged a successful coup against him ... We explain how Hulu’s “The Great,” with Elle Fanning as Catherine the Great and Nicholas ...