In 1745, after being received into the Russian Orthodox Church, and changing her name to Catherine, she married Grand Duke Peter, grandson of Peter the Great and heir to the Russian throne.

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 ...

Most of that can be chalked up to the family drama of Peter The Great, who is mentioned a lot in Catherine the Great as the iconic ruler who founded St. Petersburg and brought Russia into a new ...

The longest-serving female ruler in Russian history and one of the most significant monarchs of modern Europe, Catherine is responsible for a huge expansion of the Russian Empire, including the ...

Dr. Catherine Wanner testified on Russia’s persecution of evangelical Christians in occupied Ukraine. She explained that Russia targets these groups due to their religious pluralism, ties to the ...

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Though it's located about 20 miles outside St. Petersburg proper, the Catherine Palace and Park certainly merits a visit by anyone in the area, especially enthusiasts of elaborate and fanciful ...

Catherine Belton is an international investigative reporter for The Washington Post, reporting on Russia. She worked from 2007 to 2013 as the Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times ...

John Paul Jones, cashed in on his service and fame as a war hero to command a Russian warship for Catherine the Great. Jones, a native of Scotland, arrived in Fredericksburg, Va., in 1774 and was ...

This ahistorical take on the rise of Russian empress Catherine the Great (Fanning) gets substantially darker this season. With this darkness comes more daring storytelling choices, more ...