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Apr 21, 2024 · Delve into the truth behind Catherine the Great's alleged horse scandal, exploring history's most enduring myths. #CatherineTheGreat #HistoricalMyths #Debunk...
Apr 15, 2022 · THAT Horse Rumor... Catherine the Great - Extra History #shorts. @extrahistory. Catherine the Great might have had a spicy love life but not as bold as we've been led to believe!...
- Catherine The Great’s Infamous Death
- Foreign Slander
- Catherine The Great and Entrenched Misogyny
- Sex and Power
The most widely known story of Catherine the Great involves her death at age 67 in 1796. The rumor goes that Catherine — at that point already internationally “known” for a supposedly outsized sexual appetite (outsized compared to how men thought women should act) — perished when a harness holding a stallion positioned above her broke, causing the ...
England and France, especially via their political cartoons (some of which you can view above), drove much of the Catherine the Great rumor-mongering. French cartoonists and broadsheet writers in particular consistently denigrated Catherine, in ways that often involved her supposed promiscuity, after she came out against the French Revolution. In f...
Frederick the Great -- ruler of Russia's neighbor and geopolitical rival, Prussia -- had some strongly misogynistic feelings toward Catherine the Great. As he wrote to his brother 12 years after Catherine took the throne from Peter III: Sexism aside, Frederick disliked Catherine because of her governing style in which she would send trusted adviser...
While men like Frederick the Great certainly invented misogynistic rumors involving Catherine's sexual habits in order to damage her reputation, a few small truths do tether those rumors to reality. It is true that Catherine used sex as a tool to secure and broaden her political power. First and foremost, she elevated her main lovers into powerful ...
Jul 7, 2020 · “Most everyone that I talked to, what they know her for is this rumor that she had sex with a horse, which is so reductive and sad,” Fanning says of Russian ruler Catherine the Great,...
May 2, 2017 · Catherine, born on the 2 May 1729 reigned from 1762 until her death in 1796 at the age of 67. The circumstances of her death have long stalked the memory of her reign. Rumour had it that she died whilst attempting to have sexual relations with a horse.
May 15, 2020 · Yes, Elle Fanning Knew That Horse Rumor About Catherine the Great. Erica Gonzales. May 15, 2020 · 10 min read. Photo credit: Andrea Pirrello/Hulu. From Harper's BAZAAR. Mild spoilers...
