Brought to Russia as fourteen-year-old Princess Sophia from a tiny German principality, she became Catherine the Great, the most powerful woman in Europe.
Peter III, Catherine's husband
Catherine's mother, Princess Johanna
The Empress Elizabeth
Frederick the Great
Grigori Orlov
Poniatowski
Catherine on the the balcony of the Winter Palace after she seized the throne from Peter III
Catherine, in the uniform of the Imperial Guard