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 ...

Biographer Robert Massie explains how Catherine II read books to escape the misery of her unhappy marriage. When she became empress in 1762, she... Catherine The Great: First She Read, Then She Ruled ...

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The memoirs of Catherine the Great, empress of Russia, were a state secret from soon after Catherine’s death in 1796 until the fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917. Reading this surprisingly fast-paced ...

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Katherine the Great Empress of the people was the Russian Empire's longest ruling female leader she was Mother to Russia's Golden Age butt she was also responsible for quite a lot of Bloodshed and she ...

Catherine The Great: Empress of Russia Catherine II championed the ideas of the Enlightenment during her 34-year reign. How did a German princess from a minor noble family become the empress of Russia ...