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Oct 14, 2020 · Catherine was 'broken' when partner Grigory Potemkin died. Ironically, it was the day that Orlov helped overthrow her husband that Catherine ended up meeting the man who would become her...
Jun 24, 2020 · But as Snopes reports, the quiet fact of the matter is that Catherine, age 67, died of a stroke after doing some writing. Some say Catherine the Great died like Elvis -- not as a king, but on the toilet. Here's the truth.
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Nov 27, 2021 · In truth, Catherine died from a stroke, but the bestiality rumor became so potent, among other slander levied at the deceased Empress, that her very own son, Emperor Paul I, passed an edict after she died, forbidding a woman from ascending to the Russian throne ever again, making Catherine the Great the first and only woman to have ruled over ...
Her husband, Peter III, met a suspiciously untimely death shortly after her coup d'état. This sequence of events has fueled speculation about the role that Catherine played in the sinister demise of her husband. But what does the surviving evidence actually show? Why Catherine and Peter III’s marriage failed.
Nov 19, 2021 · Peter III was promptly placed in jail, and he died not long after. Although some argue Peter III perished in a drunken brawl, it's widely believed that Alexei Orlov, Grigory's brother, killed him ...
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Tsar Peter III and his wife, the future Catherine the Great. He reigned only six months, and died on 17 July 1762. After the death of the Empress Elizabeth on 5 January 1762 ( OS: 25 December 1761), Peter succeeded to the throne as Emperor Peter III and Catherine became empress consort.
Oct 21, 2019 · 5 October 1791. Grigory Potemkin, Catherine’s favourite and former lover, dies on campaign in Moldavia just before the conclusion of the treaty with the Ottoman empire that ends the second Russo-Turkish War. 13 October 1795. The final partition of Poland-Lithuania is agreed between Austria, Prussia and Russia.
