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1744 Catherine arrived in Russia
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Catherine the Great converted to Orthodoxy, changed her name, and was married to the Grand Duke Peter in 1745
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The empress Elizabeth died on December 25, 1761 making Catherine's Neurotic husband, Peter, emperor of Russia.
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Catherine rallied the Regiments to overthrow her husband and 8 days later he was assassinated.
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Poland didn't have definite boundaries and coveted by 3 neighboring powers, by putting one of her old lovers who was devoted to her as new emperor of Poland.
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Her government even published a decree condemning serfs who protested about their conditions
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Yemelyan Pugachev claimed to be Peter III (Catherine’s executed husband) and staged an insurrection
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Catherine's glorification reaches a climax in a voyage to Crimea arranged by Potemkin in 1787.
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Catherine wiped Poland of the European map by dividing it between Russia, Prussia, and Austria.
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Catherine was succeeded by Paul I, who was supposedly her son with Peter III (Paul’s true father may have been Sergei Saltykov, one of Catherine’s lovers).
