In 1745, after being received into the Russian Orthodox Church, and changing her name to Catherine, she married Grand Duke Peter, grandson of Peter the Great and heir to the Russian throne.

who is mentioned a lot in Catherine the Great as the iconic ruler who founded St. Petersburg and brought Russia into a new era of scientific and cultural enlightenment. The first thing anyone ...

Often referred to as the “Russian Hamlet”, Paul is a tortured figure who struggles to cope with his father’s death and his mother’s new lovers. Taken from Catherine at birth and raised by his great ...

This ahistorical take on the rise of Russian empress Catherine the Great (Fanning) gets substantially darker this season. With this darkness comes more daring storytelling choices, more ...