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.
Catherine’s coronation painting, wearing her remarkable crownPugachev, harassing captive nobles before their executionPaul I, Catherine’s son and heirGrigori PotemkinPeterhof PalaceThe Winter Palace and Hermitage MuseumThe Bronze Horseman statue of Peter the Great
