#340 | Catherine The Great | Russia’s Fearless Empress
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Catherine and Peter - A History of the Russian Empire
On their wedding night, Catherine waited upstairs in the bedroom to perform her duty. Peter did come to bed several hours later, but was completely drunk and passed out,. The marriage was not consummated that evening, and there are some theories that the pair never actually slept together. Whether this is true or not, Catherine did fall pregnant. Over the next decade, Catherine, in fact, fell pregnant several times, losing the baby each time, until she successfully gave birth to a son, Paul. Now, it's widely believed that both Catherine and Peter were having affairs with other people, so Paul was almost certainly not Peter's son. But this didn't really matter. People thought he was
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