Catherine the Great with Dana Schwartz
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What to Do When You're a New Leader
Catherine has always made a really good impression on the military leaders by riding on her horse through the barracks and making friends mazingly, doing the equivalent of being like the mam who drops off cookies. Catherine has taken a lover at this point, gregory orlove, who, with his brother, are pretty connected in the military world. The long story short is, everyone hates him. He's actually behaving a little bit treasonously against the interest of russia as an empire, and hates the russian orthodox church. To be fair, it's a kind of a comedy of errors how the actual coup happens, just because he, peter, who's the emperor at
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