It is well overdue that this particular rumour about Russian empress Catherine the Great is sent to the glue factory ...

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 ...

Russia’s palatial institution is now the second largest in the world, with an impressive collection of three million objects ...

Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst was born on 2 May 1729 in Stettin, then part of Prussia (now Szczecin in Poland), the daughter of a minor German prince. In 1745, after being received ...

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Catherine is intelligent, resourceful and utterly determined. She faces challenges on all sides, but everyone has underestimated the new Empress. Catherine has no interest in getting married again ...

A copper coin discovered by a schoolchild in a park in Espoo last month is believed to be about 230 years old. A local ...

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The service was ordered in 1773 by Empress Catherine II of Russia for the Chesme Palace - at one time called La Grenouillere or Kekerekeksinen because of its location on a frog marsh, which ...