Catherine the Great, One of a Kind (Part Two)

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Oct 9, 202551:22Society & Culture

Brought to Russia as fourteen-year-old Princess Sophia from a tiny German principality, she became Catherine the Great, the most powerful woman in Europe. Catherine's coronation painting, wearing her remarkable crown Pug...

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