In 1776, almost a couple of months after the Declaration on the Formation of the independent state of the USA by the former ...

For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress - who reigned from 1762 to 1796 after overthrowing her own husband, Peter III - understood that ...

During her reign she extended the Russian empire southwards and westwards ... (or 'Instruction'), a strikingly liberal document that presented the empress’s vision of the ideal government.

a descendant of Russian Empress Catherine II, who was known as Catherine the Great and reigned in 1762-1796, and her court favorite Prince Grigory Potemkin, according to the relevant presidential ...

The museum’s origins date back to Russian Empress Catherine the Great, a lover of the arts who wrote plays and children’s literature. In 1764, nearly a century before the State Hermitage’s ...

recorded against the backdrop of the statue of Russian Empress Catherine II the Great in the Kremlin’s Senate’s Palace. The president went on to say that in Russia, International Women's Day ...