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The wedding day was warm and clear. Before the Storkyrka, where all the Kings descending from Napoleon's Marshal Bernadotte have been crowned, stood Sweden's famed Grenadiers of the Guard in the original deerskin uniforms, jack boots, silver breastplates and cocked hats first presented by Russia'...
Escape Me Never (British & Dominions). Cinemaddicts who, after Catherine the Great, still have any doubts about the capabilities of Elisabeth Bergner, should find them allayed by this picture. Purposely designed to exhibit her extraordinary versatility, it becomes a sort of steeplechase of the emotions in which, as Gemma, a strangely...
As Empress, Catherine was a hardworking success. She got up at dawn, worked 15 hours a day. She was no voluptuous debauchee: "her love-life resembled that of an important business man; it was simple, very sentimental, and rather pathetic." Catherine found her liberal-philosophizing theories sharply modified by the...
Shortly after she broke off with Orlov Catherine struck up the strangest of her partnerships-with Gregory Potemkin, one-eyed, clumsy, moody, brilliant. It was an alliance that soon ceased to be physical (Potemkin chose and dismissed her lovers himself) but remained intimate. Both profited by it; Potemkin to the...
An autocrat who held Russia with a firm hand, Catherine was democratic to a degree in her imperial household. If her enraged whist partner threw his cards at her feet, she would merely call the onlookers to witness that she had played her hand right. Once when she had an...