Catherine the Great © Catherine II was Empress of Russia for more than 30 years and one of the country’s most influential rulers.

For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress — who reigned from 1762 to 1796 after overthrowing her own husband, Peter III — understood that ...

Once the upstart foreigner stole Russia’s throne, there was no stopping her enlightened reforms, her empire's expansion, and her pursuit of love and legacy. Holding courtCatherine II of Russia makes a ...

ODESA, Ukraine - A large monument to former Russian empress Catherine the Great was removed from a central square in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa and replaced with the flag of Ukraine. Video from ...

Robert K. Massie, Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (New York: Random House, 2011), 656 pp., $35.00. THE SUBTITLE of Robert K. Massie’s biography announces the book’s keynote: it is to be a ...

Olivia Durand receives research funding from Freie Universität Berlin, where she is a postdoctoral visting fellow alongside her position at the University of Oxford. Pope Francis’s video speech to the ...

The Trump-Putin summit will take place in a former Russian colony that the United States bought for $7.2 million in 1867. Here’s how the deal came together and why its legacy matters. By Mike Ives In ...

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The crowd in Katerynynska Square grows larger with each passing moment, fed by a continuous stream of pedestrians making their way down Katerynynska Street, or up the sandstone steps of the Primorsky ...

Now that Catherine has attempted to kill her husband, will they live happily ever after? Marriage is tough enough without the added responsibility of running an empire, so it’s no surprise that mixing ...