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 ...

For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress - who reigned from 1762 to 1796 after overthrowing her own husband, Peter III - understood that ...

Catherine The Great: First She Read, Then She Ruled Biographer Robert Massie explains how Catherine II read books to escape the misery of her unhappy marriage. When she became empress in 1762, she ...

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." ...

‘The Great’: Would-be satire of Russian empress Catherine isn’t even good Hulu series wants to be a witty and dark historical comedy but doesn’t succeed.

'Catherine the Great' drops Helen Mirren into 18th-century Russia; as an HBO miniseries, however, it's hardly good enough. Our review.

Should Catherine the Great have risen to power as ruler of Russia? History offers an enthusiastic yes — the 18th-century monarch earned her epithet of “the Great” by reforming Russia ...

In HBO’s “Catherine the Great,” Mirren portrays the 18th-century Russian empress at the height of her powers.