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Catherine was born in Settin, Prussia in 1729.
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She married the Grand Duke of Russia, He was proven to be unstable and Catherine used this weakness to take the thrown.
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After the empress died the only person in Catherines way of the thrown was her husband.
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She is crowned after the death of her husband. It was investogated that she may have murdered her husband but there is no solid evidence.
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(1768- 1774) She expanded her borders through Poland and gain access to the Black sea.
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She was found dead on the floor, thought to have suffered from a stroke.
