For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress - who reigned from 1762 to 1796 after overthrowing her own husband, Peter III - understood that ...

In 1745, after being received into the Russian Orthodox Church, and changing her name to Catherine, she married Grand Duke Peter, grandson of Peter the Great and heir to the Russian throne.

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John Paul Jones, cashed in on his service and fame as a war hero to command a Russian warship for Catherine the Great. Jones, a native of Scotland, arrived in Fredericksburg, Va., in 1774 and was ...

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Often referred to as the “Russian Hamlet”, Paul is a tortured figure who struggles to cope with his father’s death and his mother’s new lovers. Taken from Catherine at birth and raised by his great ...

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As she adds to her royal repertoire with a turn as Russian empress Catherine the Great, Dame Helen Mirren talks to Stylist about history’s unfair treatment of powerful women. Helen Mirren knows ...

You know, remembering what Prince Potemkin once wrote to [Empress of Russia] Catherine the Great when it came to the annexation of Crimea... He wrote the following: time will pass, and future ...