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.

remembered merely as the younger sister of the mistress of Peter III, the Russian czar deposed by his better-known wife, Catherine the Great. Perhaps motivated by the prospect of this unflattering ...

They begin an affair whilst she is still married to her unpleasant husband, Emperor Peter III ... cope with his father’s death and his mother’s new lovers. Taken from Catherine at birth and raised by ...