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4 days ago · With Catherine’s advisors handling all of the major decisions, the Senate’s role fell by the wayside, and her late husband’s reformist activities went neglected. Worst of all, the very ...
May 5, 2024 · One particularly nasty rumour held that Catherine had died while attempting sexual intercourse with a horse. Paul Read about Catherine the Great’s son and successor, Paul, and his tumultuous relationship with his mother.
Apr 25, 2024 · Catherine the Great and the horse lover Contrary to the popular myth, the 18th-century Empress of Russia did not die from having sex with an animal, most commonly told to be a horse.
5 days ago · Crazy Quirk: Catherine’s sexual appetite led to rumors about her engaging in carnal pleasures with a horse. Catherine the Great is something of an anomaly on this list, because she was not a bad ruler. She instituted massive reforms for Russia and made female rulers look strong and capable in a time when men mostly did the ruling.
May 13, 2024 · Another biography of Catherine the Great? Simon Dixon locates his new book somewhere between Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great by Isabel de Madariaga , which he terms ‘the most important (and appropriately weighty) study of Catherine’s reign in any language,’ and John T. Alexander’s Catherine the Great: Life and Legend, ‘the first modern scholarly biography, particularly ...
May 1, 2024 · May 1, 2024 2:15 PM PT. Prince William shared a heartening health update about his wife and children following Catherine’s disclosure in March that she has cancer.
Apr 29, 2024 · When she was born in 1729, Princess Sophie of Anhelt-Zerbs was minor nobility, expected to live her life in obscurity. But she was clever, canny, and ambitious. She married the heir to the Russian throne when she was 13, converted to the Russian Orthodox church, and took a new name: Catherine. And in 1762, she took the
