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At seven, Sophia Augusta Frederica, the penniless daughter of a petty German princeling, found "this idea of a crown . . . running in my head then like a tune, and [it] has been running . . . ever since." The music never stopped. Little Sophia of Stettin became Catherine the Great of Russia, one of...
In 1744 Russia's Empress Elizabeth summoned 14-year-old Sophia to Moscow to marry Grand Duke Peter (later Tsar Peter III), Elizabeth's nephew and heir. Peter, a German-born second cousin of his bride-to-be, at 16 was a pockmarked, childish lad who prattled only...
Susceptible Skin. In the 16 years of waiting for the aging Empress Elizabeth to die. Catherine had ample time for self-study. Isolated by sycophants and informers, the young Duchess had no friends to turn to in the Russian court, which, for all its Frenchified airs, was a bear pit...
Catherine learned to preserve her own susceptible skin through "meticulous honesty and good will." Her maxim: "Behave so that the kind love you. the evil fear you, and all respect you." Of her conduct during those years, she writes: "I would say about myself that I was every inch a...
Planned Parenthood. Catherine's self-portrait is in demure contrast to the pic ture drawn by historians, who characterize her as a Messalina. with a reputed score of 55 lovers. She was the first to concede her womanly charms, admitted - in a passage expurgated from the 1907 Russian edition...