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

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On the rest of Europe he soon imposed a grimmer fate: the Great Northern war, which embroiled bits of Scandinavia and the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. When Peter the Great of Russia was 17 years old, he was married to a young noblewoman by the name of Eudoxia Lopukhina. It was a poor match--Peter ...