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Death narratives. Death while having sex with a horse. Several stories about the circumstances of her death at age 67 in 1796 originated in the years following her death.
Mar 29, 1997 · According to legend, Russian empress Catherine the Great died while attempting to engage in sexual intercourse with a horse. The truss holding her equine paramour broke, crushing Catherine...
Oct 21, 2019 · Here's what's fact and fiction about Russia's longest-reigning female ruler, Catherine the Great, played by Helen Mirren in a new series.
Oct 21, 2019 · How did Catherine the Great die? She didn’t die fucking a horse, that’s for sure. The most notorious sexual myth about Catherine is that she was crushed to death by the horse with whom she...
Catherine riding a horse. Catherine was the first woman to rule Imperial Russia, opening the legal path for a century almost entirely dominated by women, including her daughter Elizabeth and granddaughter-in-law Catherine the Great, all of whom continued Peter the Great's policies
Catherine II (born Princess Sophie Augusta Frederica von Anhalt-Zerbst; 2 May 1729 – 17 November 1796), most commonly known as Catherine the Great, was the reigning empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. She came to power after overthrowing her husband, Peter III.
May 15, 2020 · Perhaps the most readily recognizable anecdote related to Catherine centers on a horse. But the actual story of the monarch’s death is far simpler: On November 16, 1796, the 67-year-old empress...
May 2, 2017 · Rumour had it that she died whilst attempting to have sexual relations with a horse. Origins of the myth are obscure, but many have postulated that it was members of the French aristocracy who ignited the rumour in an effort to taint her character.
In reality, Catherine the Great died of a stroke and she was discovered collapsed on the floor in her washroom. She fell into a coma and died the next day whilst lying in her bed. The cause of death was confirmed by autopsy.
The "afterimage" of Catherine II ("the Great") in modern cultural memory has come to include, among other things, a historical anecdote about the 18th-century, German-born, Russian empress's alleged fondness for sex with horses—a case of hippophilia so extreme that, according to one popular variant, it resulted in her accidental death during ...
