In her 34-year tenure as Russia’s sovereign, Catherine the Great expanded the country’s borders south and west, codified national law, squelched a spate of uprisings, and propagated Enlightenment ...
In 1786, Lafayette chose Louis XVI’s Assembly of Notables over Catherine the Great’s Crimean tour, amid plans involving ...
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Catherine the Great's horrible husband
Being a Tsar in Russia is a bloody business—just ask the Romanovs. But even though that Imperial family has gone down in infamy, their ancestor, Emperor Peter III of Russia, met an even crueler fate.
Built for Catherine the Great’s personal physician, a Scotsman, this 8,310-square-foot Georgian manor house dates to 1821. Known as Dumcrieff House, the eight-bedroom, six-bathroom home is in Moffat, ...
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