It is well overdue that this particular rumour about Russian empress Catherine the Great is sent to the glue factory ...

Catherine wasn't called “The Great” for nothing. Though she was one of the most enlightened women in the world, behind closed ...

Catherine the Great moved to a foreign land as a teenager and became one of the most important leaders in history. Known for ...

Catherine the Great: individual empress, mother of the Russian Renaissance, and the longest-ruling female monarch of Russia.

In 1717, Peter the Great commissioned a building for his wife, Catherine, who succeeded him after his death, but her namesake palace only began taking on its grand stature in 1743, when their ...

As Catherine, Princess of Wales, becomes joint patron of the hospital where she received her chemotherapy treatment for cancer, she signals the importance that role could hold for her in the future.

Denis Diderot, at Catherine the Great’s insistent invitation ... it was not until Stalin came to power that a Russian ruler once more tried to do business with philosophers. Both Catherine and Stalin, ...

One of only three Russian rulers to be awarded the sobriquet ‘the Great’, Catherine, like Peter the Great, polarises biographers. Most historians who compare the Russia she inherited (or usurped) in ...

The winners of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival include Dylan O'Brien's 'Twinless,' the comedy 'Atropia' and the documentary ...