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Born to joanna elisabeth of holstein-gottorp and christian august, prince of anhalt-zerbst
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She was married to Peter the third after Empress Elizabeth wanted to keep her family in power of Russia.
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Catherine had her husband arrested and put into jail where he was eventually killed months later. She then became the ruler of Russia because of this.
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Poland signs a partition giving 3 other countries a piece their land. Russia was one of those countries.
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There was no specific date of the rebelion. The life of the Russian peasents were very tough which caused mass anger which lead to rebellion. Catherine and her army crushed the revolt.
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After two wars the Russians and Ottoman's came ro an agreement to give Catherine the Great the northshore of the black sea.
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This was when she died after suffering a stroke.