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She was a subject in The Royal Diaries series in the book Catherine: The Great Journey, Russia, 1743–1745 by Kristiana Gregory. The Empress is parodied in Offenbach's operetta La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (1867). [162] Ernst Lubitsch's silent film Forbidden Paradise (1924) told the story of Catherine's romance with an officer.
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.
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.
She became lady-in-waiting to Empress Catherine in 1713, [1] arousing attention with her beauty and love life, and became the lover of Peter the Great. [1] [2] She also had a lover, Ivan Mikhailovich Orlov. [1] [2] When Orlov betrayed her with Peter's other lover, Avdotya Chernysheva, she tried to win him back by giving him items stolen from ...
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 ...
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 ...
Catherine subsequently deposed Paul's father, Peter III, to take the Russian throne and become Catherine the Great. [2] While Catherine hinted in the first edition of her memoirs published by Alexander Herzen in 1859 that her lover Sergei Saltykov was Paul's biological father, she later recanted and asserted in the final edition that Peter III ...
Bruce is best known in history as l'éprouveuse for the role that she allegedly played in Catherine's love life. According to legend, Bruce would "test" any prospective lovers sexually before they became the lovers of Catherine after they had been suggested by Grigory Potemkin , chosen by Catherine and examined by a doctor.