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Oct 21, 2019 · Catherine the Great liked horses and has been painted on horseback, but there is no consensus on who started the rumor or when. Experts on the ruler say it is thought to have been ginned up...
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- Olivia B. Waxman
Mar 29, 1997 · Widespread rumors about Catherine engaging in aberrant sexual practices became a way of saying that Catherine herself was an aberration, a freak of nature, and thus that her success as a ruler...
Oct 21, 2019 · With the monarch’s story hitting television in HBO’s Catherine the Great, we took it upon ourselves to sort fact from fiction when it comes to her personal life. Read on for the real story ...
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- Books And Fiction Editor
May 14, 2020 · In the first episode of The Great, Peter introduces Catherine to his mother—er, the remains of his mother, Anna Petrovna, which he keeps mummified in the palace. McNamara pointed out, with a ...
May 15, 2020 · Whereas the premium cable series traced the trajectory of Catherine’s rule from 1764 to her death, “The Great” centers on her 1762 coup and the sequence of events leading up to it.
- Meilan Solly
Personal life narratives. Rumours of Catherine's private life had a small basis in the fact that she took many young lovers, even in old age. ( Lord Byron 's Don Juan, around the age of 22, becomes her lover after the siege of Ismail (1790), in a fiction written only about 25 years after Catherine's death in 1796.)
Apr 15, 2022 · 87K. 1.2M views 1 year ago Extra History: Catherine the Great. Catherine the Great might have had a spicy love life but not as bold as we've been led to believe! ...more. ---- The Full...
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