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 ...
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 ...
Catherine the Great Season 1 is a historical drama that focuses on the life of Catherine the Great, her rise to fame, and her reign as the most influential and powerful empress in the Russian Empire.
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 ...
Hulu’s satirical period drama The Great bills itself as “an occasionally true story,” fully admitting that its take on the life of Russian empress Catherine the Great isn’t always terribly interested ...