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.
Catherine's coronation painting, wearing her remarkable crown
Pugachev, harassing captive nobles before their execution
Paul I, Catherine's son and heir
Grigori Potemkin
Peterhof Palace
The Winter Palace and Hermitage Museum
The Bronze Horseman statue of Peter the Great