Brought to Russia as fourteen-year-old Princess Sophia from a tiny German principality, she became Catherine the Great, the most powerful woman in Europe.
Peter III, Catherine’s husbandCatherine’s mother, Princess JohannaThe Empress ElizabethFrederick the GreatGrigori OrlovPoniatowskiCatherine on the the balcony of the Winter Palace after she seized the throne from Peter IIICatherine, in the uniform of the Imperial Guard
