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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 ...

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Field Marshal Grigory Potemkin (d.1791) was the toyboy of Catherine the Great who allegedly tried to impress his empress by ...

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The Great takes a highly fictionalized approach, following Catherine’s early years and turbulent marriage to Peter III as she plots to overthrow her reckless and unfit husband to become Russia ...