A major part of the coup that Catherine the Great planned throughout The Great involved her obtaining the support of various ...

Catherine's major influences on her adopted country were in expanding Russia's borders and continuing the process of Westernisation begun by Peter the Great. During her reign she extended the ...

Gifted at political calculation and shrewd in military strategy ... cope with his father’s death and his mother’s new lovers. Taken from Catherine at birth and raised by his great aunt, Empress ...