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The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934) is a film starring Elisabeth Bergner and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Lubitsch remade his 1924 silent film as the sound film A Royal Scandal (1945), also known as Czarina. Mae West published Catherine Was Great in 1944, starring in it then and in subsequent productions.
Rumours of Catherine's private life had a small basis in the fact that she took many young lovers, even in old age. (Lord Byron's Don Juan, around the age of 22, becomes her lover after the siege of Ismail (1790), in a fiction written only about 25 years after Catherine's death in 1796.) [4] This practice was not unusual by the court standards of the day, nor was it unusual to use rumour and ...
The Slave Who Freed Haiti: The Story of Toussaint Louverture (juvenile), 1954. An account of Toussaint Louverture. Spring on an Arctic Island. 1956. Travel literature about a research trip to Bylot Island in 1954. Catherine the Great (juvenile). 1957. About Catherine the Great. The Sword of Siegfried (juvenile). 1959. William Tell (juvenile). 1961.
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman. New York City: Random House. ISBN 978-1-58836-044-1. Piotrovsky, Mikhail B. (2001). "An Imperial Affair". Treasures of Catherine the Great (PDF). New York City: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 9780810967328. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 May 2021. Rounding, Virginia (2008). Catherine the Great: Love, Sex ...
The Great is a historical and satirical black comedy-drama about the rise of Catherine the Great from outsider to the longest-reigning female ruler in Russia's history. The series is highly fictionalized and portrays Catherine in her youth and marriage to Emperor Peter III of Russia, focusing on the plot to kill her depraved and dangerous husband.
A Royal Scandal, also known as Czarina, is a 1945 American comedy-drama film directed by Otto Preminger, produced by Ernst Lubitsch, about the lovelife of Russian empress Catherine the Great. It stars Tallulah Bankhead , Charles Coburn , Anne Baxter and William Eythe .
Maria Savvishna Perekusikhina (Russian: Марья Саввишна Перекусихина; 1739–1824), was a Russian memoirist, a maid of honour of Empress Catherine the Great of Russia. She was a close friend and confidant of Catherine and quite influential.
Articles relating to Catherine the Great (1729–1796, reigned 1762–1796) and her reign. She was an Empress of Russia , the country's last empress regnant and longest-ruling female leader. She came to power following the overthrow of her husband and second cousin, Peter III .