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Potemkin asked for and received permission to serve as a cavalry officer in the war against Turkey, but Catherine worried about his safety and recalled him to St. Petersburg two years ago. There he encountered fading Favorite Orlov on a stairway and asked him: "Any news?" Said Orlov: "Only that...
*D'Eon, 47, is himself - or herself - an extraordinary person. Dressed as a beautiful woman, he won the confidence of Russia's Empress Catherine in 1755 and was instrumental in forging an alliance between France and Russia. Dressed as a man, he won the friendship of England'...
When the British first began searching for mercenary forces to put down the American Rebellion, they turned not to the German princelings of Hesse and Brunswick but to mighty Empress Catherine II of Russia. They even made a formal offer of £1 per man for 20,000 of her...
So now that Catherine is just beginning to enjoy peace, at the age of 47, the absolute mistress of everything from Kiev to Kamchatka has found a new specimen of what the Russians call a vremenshchik (man of the moment). He is Pyotr Zavadovsky, 37, her private secretary, who has...
If these current predictions in St. Petersburg come true, which is by no means certain, it would mark the end of the most passionate of Catherine's many passions. Tall, muscular but hardly handsome, sometimes witty, some-tunes morose, Prince Potemkin once studied theology but chose the army instead. He...