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Catherine The Great – Official trailer
Coming to Sky Atlantic in autumn 2019.
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Anna – Catherine the Great’s daughter
Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna was born on 9 December 1757 as the daughter of the future Empress Catherine the Great. Anna was born between 10 and 11 o’clock in the Winter Palace on the Nevsky Prospect with the Empress Elizabeth and Catherine’s husband Peter present. The following day, her birth was announced to the city with [read more]
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Catherine the Great – The woman who adopted a nation
This article was written by Kelly. Born in 1729 as Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, the young woman in question was destined for a mediocre life. Daughter of an insignificant Prussian prince, Sophie has very few prospects that would bring her and her family contentment in Prussia. With little money and no impressive dowry to match [read more]
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Empresses of All Russia – Catherine II
The future Empress Catherine II of Russia was born as Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg as the daughter of Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst and Princess Johanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp on 2 May 1729. She arrived in Russia in 1744 as the prospective bride of the future Peter III of Russia. At the time Russia [read more]
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Catherine The Greatest: Self-Polished Diamond – Exhibition at the Hermitage Amsterdam
Once upon a time… I’m not sure Catherine herself would agree with the fairy tale the Hermitage makes her life out to be. Sure, she rose to be the most powerful woman in Russia, despite her birth as an insignificant German princess, but to get there and to stay there, I am sure it cost [read more]
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Replica of the Imperial Crown of Russia arrives in Amsterdam ahead of exhibition
Yesterday the replica of the Russian Imperial Crown arrived in Amsterdam on a special transport. It is one of the main pieces of the new Catherine The Great exhibition, which opens to the public this Saturday. This particular model was made in 2012 to celebrate the coronation of Catherine The Great 250 years before. It [read more]