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 © Catherine II was Empress of Russia for more than 30 years and one of the country’s most influential rulers.

Once the upstart foreigner stole Russia’s throne, there was no stopping her enlightened reforms, her empire's expansion, and her pursuit of love and legacy. Holding courtCatherine II of Russia makes a ...

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The Trump-Putin summit will take place in a former Russian colony that the United States bought for $7.2 million in 1867. Here’s how the deal came together and why its legacy matters. By Mike Ives In ...

Olivia Durand receives research funding from Freie Universität Berlin, where she is a postdoctoral visting fellow alongside her position at the University of Oxford. Pope Francis’s video speech to the ...

Now that Catherine has attempted to kill her husband, will they live happily ever after? Marriage is tough enough without the added responsibility of running an empire, so it’s no surprise that mixing ...

If the official trailer for The Great season 3 is any indication, tumultuous lovers Catherine (Elle Fanning) and Peter (Nicholas Hoult) are finding this out the hard way. In the clip, below, the ruler ...