Catherine II (Empress of Russia) (1729 - 1796)
Short name | Catherine II (Empress of Russia) |
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VIAF | http://viaf.org/viaf/49493819/ |
First name | Sophie Auguste Friederike |
Birth name | von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg |
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Alternative name | Sophie-Frédérique-Auguste d' Anhalt-Zerbst , Catherine the Great , Ekaterina Alekseevna |
Date of birth | 1729 |
Date of death | 1796 |
Flourishing | - |
Sex | Female |
Place of birth | Szczecin (Stettin) |
Place of death | Saint Petersburg |
Lived in | Russia |
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Religion / ideology | Eastern Orthodox |
Education | Educated at home |
Aristocratic title | - |
Professional or ecclesiastical title | - |
Catherine II (Empress of Russia) was ...
related to | Elisaveta Petrovna Divova |
related to | Württemberg, Sophie Frederike Mathilde von |
related to | Dashkova, Ekaterina Romanovna |
related to | Marie-Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin |
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Place(s) of Residence | Russia |
Receptions of Catherine II (Empress of Russia), the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
- Golitsyn, Slovar', 1889
- Lettres européennes (Dutch version 1994) II, 591, 663-6, 815
- Clyman/Greene (40)
- The Memoirs of Catherine the Great. A new translation by Mark Cruse and Hilde Hoogenboom. New York, 2006.
eg aug 10
1 son, 1 illegitimate son, 1 illegitimate daughter.
Clyman/Greene (40): The most prolific and powerful woman writing in eighteenth-century Russia.
KLK 1904