Catherine the Great | |||||
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![]() Catherine II bi Dmitry Levitsky | |||||
Empress an Autocrat o Aw the Roushies | |||||
Ring | 9 Julie 1762 – 17 November 1796 | ||||
Coronation | 12 September 1762 | ||||
Predecessor | Peter III | ||||
Successor | Paul I | ||||
Empress consort o Aw the Roushies | |||||
Tenure | 25 Dizember 1761–9 Julie 1762 | ||||
Born | 2 Mey 1729 Stettin, Pomeranie, Kinrick o Proushie, Haly Roman Empire | ||||
Dee'd | 17 November 1796 Winter Pailace, Saunt Petersburg, Roushie | (aged 67)||||
Buirial | Peter an Paul Cathedral in Saunt Petersburg | ||||
Spouse | Peter III o Roushie | ||||
Issue 3 illegitimate childer | Paul o Roushie | ||||
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Faither | Christian August, Prince o Anhalt-Zerbst | ||||
Mither | Princess Johanna Elisabeth o Holstein-Gottorp | ||||
Releegion | Lutheranism, then Eastren Orthodox | ||||
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Yekaterina Alexeevna or Catherine II, kent as Catherine the Great an aw (Roushie: Екатерина II Великая, Yekaterina II Velikaya), Empress o Roushie (2 Mey [A.S. 21 Aprile] 1729 – 17 November [A.S. 6 November] 1796), wis the maist renouned an the langest-rulin female leader o Roushie, reignin frae 9 Julie [A.S. 28 Juin] 1762 till her daith at the age o saxty-seiven. She wis born in Stettin, Pomeranie, Proushie as Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg, an came tae pouer follaein a coup d'état an the assassination o her husband, Peter III, at the end o the Seiven Years' War. Roushie wis revitalisit unner her reign, growin lairger an stranger than iver an becomin recognisit as ane o the great pouers o Europe.