Because Catherine was a proudly sexually liberated woman who was known for keeping lovers, as did most people in the Russian court. The rumor that Catherine the Great had sex with a horse will ...

Historians know for a fact that Catherine the Great did not die having sex with a horse. SHE DID NOT! First of all, the rumor didn’t even emerge until decades after her death, suggesting that it ...

Catherine the Great's 34-year reign in Russia was as full of rumors as it was long. And if you were wondering why characters keep talking about Catherine the Great having sex with a horse on Hulu ...

Catherine the Great is remembered for being Russia's longest ruling female head-of-state – a fact – and for allegedly banging a horse, a rumor addressed in the fourth episode, "Moscow Mule." ...

Russia’s longest-ruling female leader, Catherine II — better known as Catherine the Great — was a force to be reckoned with. Coming to power after overthrowing her husband, Peter III ...

WHEN Catherine the Great died in 1796, she left the world the juiciest bit of gossip in royal history. That horse tale is dismissed as a myth but still, there will be no shortage of steaminess in ...

McNamara revealed that the idea for The Great came to him by chance. “I didn’t know much about her except that maybe she banged a horse,” he said of the famous rumor circulated about Catherine.

Hulu’s “genre-bending” period comedy “The Great” tells the story of Catherine the Great in spirit, if not in fact. But there was at least one important fact that made it into the show ...

‘The Great’: Would-be satire of Russian empress Catherine isn’t even good ... (One of the ladies starts a vicious rumor about Catherine and a horse, just to be awful to her.) ...

Helen Mirren as Catherine the Great. HBO. On July 6 of that year, the imprisoned Peter was invited to eat with a number of Russian noblemen, and after a night of drinking, he ended up strangled by ...

Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, was deemed great for a reason. “Catherine the Great,” the mini-series, hasn’t quite decided what that reason is just yet. HBO’s new historical drama “Catherine ...