It is well overdue that this particular rumour about Russian empress Catherine the Great is sent to the glue factory ...

Catherine the Great: individual empress, mother of the Russian Renaissance, and the longest-ruling female monarch of Russia.

In 1717, Peter the Great commissioned a building for his wife, Catherine, who succeeded him ... when their daughter, the Empress Elizabeth, engaged a series of architects to expand upon it.

Denis Diderot, at Catherine the Great’s insistent invitation ... relying largely on material supplied by the Empress Elizaveta.) Some French philosophers, notably Jean le Rond d’Alembert and, ...

Even in the company of her peers – Queen Elizabeth I of England, Queen Christiana of Sweden, the empress Maria Theresa – Catherine the Great stands out as an empire-builder, a larger-than-life, ...

History is full of sweeping love affairs, from Antony and Cleopatra to Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin and many more ...

In citing this "Potemkin version" of law, Scruton refers to the supposed tricky practice of Prince Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin when acting as chief minister to Empress Catherine the Great of ...

Athens and Cairo have agreed to preserve the status of the historic St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai ... destination under President El-Sisi’s Sinai Transformation Plan. Empress Irene of Athens, a ...

This guide to using Catherine the Great in Civilization 7 outlines the best strategies and Civs to secure a win.

I was more than a little amused at a 419 message of the “I’ve been hired to assassinate you” sub-category to which my  friend and colleague Urban Schrott, then at ESET Ireland, drew my attention, so I ...