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Catherine II of Russia

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Count Alexander Dmitriev-Mamonov (pictured) ended his love affair with the 60-year-old Empress Catherine II in order to marry her 16-year-old lady-in-waiting?
  • the Free Economic Society, founded at the instigation of Catherine II of Russia in 1765, was briefly closed down by the imperial Russian authorities in 1900 amid accusations of fomenting revolutionary upheaval?
  • Emperor Peter III of Russia was deposed by his wife Catherine and her friend Ekaterina Dashkova after he had made public his plans to divorce Catherine and marry Ekaterina's sister Elisabeth?
  • Catherine the Great wrote several comedies and an opera libretto for the productions of the Hermitage Theatre in Saint Petersburg?
  • Catherine II's Instruction to the Legislative Assembly was banned in pre-revolutionary 18th-century France as a "libertarian book"?
  • Catherine the Great (pictured) and other leaders of the Russian Enlightenment promoted further Europeanization of all aspects of Russian life?
  • Rastrelli's Monument to Peter the Great (pictured) in Saint Petersburg includes a message by emperor Paul I that is a subtle mockery of Catherine the Great's inscription on the Bronze Horseman?
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