In 1762 Catherine's husband became Tsar Peter III but he was soon overthrown with Catherine being declared empress ... by Peter the Great. During her reign she extended the Russian empire ...

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 ...

KIEV, December 29. /TASS/. A statue of Russian Empress Catherine the Great, known as the Monument to the Founders of Odessa, has been dismantled in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, the Dumskaya local ...

The city hall of Ukraine’s coastal city of Odessa has ruled to dismantle and relocate the monument to Empress Catherine the Great ... a monument to 18th century Russian Generalissimo Alexander ...

In 1787, Russian empress Catherine the Great departed her majestic palace at St Petersburg for a grand tour of Russia’s newly acquired southern territories annexed four years earlier from the ...