and changing her name to Catherine, she married Grand Duke Peter, grandson of Peter the Great and heir to the Russian throne. The marriage was unhappy, but the couple did produce one son ...

the Russian czar deposed by his better-known wife, Catherine the Great. Perhaps motivated by the prospect of this unflattering legacy, the Russian noblewoman—commonly called Princess Dashkova ...

Catherine has no interest in getting married again after the disaster of her first marriage. She certainly has no intention of handing power over to her son ... Russian Empire, including the ...