When and Where was Catherine The Great born?
She was born a princess in Germany on April 21, 1729. Empress of Russia (June 28, 1762 – November 17, 1796). She’s known in history as Catherine the Great — modeled after Peter the Great — though she eschewed the title in her lifetime. Born a princess in Germany, Catherine the Great converted to Orthodoxy and was married to the heir to the Russian throne, the Grand Duke Peter of Holstein, grandson of Peter the Great. Though Catherine the Great had the support of Peter’s mother, the Empress Elizabeth, she disliked her husband and helped engineer his removal from the throne. She took power as Tsarina or Queen, calling herself Catherine II. Soon after, she may have been behind Peter’s death. For more please go to: http://womenshistory.about.com/od/cather… or: http://www.biography.com/search/article.
