(What’s so great about Frederick ... the highest honor of the Russian Empire. Neither Romanov nor Russian, Catherine suddenly had supreme power over 20 million people. Her 34-year reign ...

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 ...

Before the 18th century was over, more than 2 million subjects throughout the Russian empire would be similarly protected against smallpox thanks to Catherine the Great’s example. Sadly, by the time ...

On September 10, 1721, the peace treaty that ended the Great Northern ... in the late 18th century Catherine achieved by ...

Putin said Peter did not take territories from Sweden and others but "returned" them to their natural place in the wider Russian Empire. Catherine II, better known as Catherine the Great ...

A petition demanding the demolition of a statue of Russian Empress Catherine the Great to be replaced with ... not some provincial town of the Russian Empire. That Odessa is not a part of Russian ...

Flag bunting and garlands flutter in the Black Sea breeze, and all around there is a continuous hum of voices conversing in myriad tongues — Russian ... known as Catherine the Great, portrayed ...

which was first annexed by the Russian Empire under Catherine the Great in 1783. Even so, Mark Voyger—a former special adviser for Russian and Eurasian affairs to Lieutenant General Ben Hodges ...

The bronze likeness of Catherine the Great stands on a square ... But monuments and street names associated with the Russian Empire were largely left untouched. Now the need to celebrate even ...

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 ...

Russell Kane is joined by Rajiv Karia, Amy Matthews and Ray Badran to debate whether Catherine was so great after all.