Derided in her days and modern times as a hypocritical warmonger with an unnatural sexual appetite. Catherine the Great used to hover between hope and apprehension. Tsar Catherine's brazen exploits ...
Denis Diderot, at Catherine the Great’s insistent invitation, spent the autumn and winter of 1773–4 in ... Although Diderot did not stop buying works of art for Catherine’s Hermitage and Catherine ...
Catherine Putz is managing editor of The Diplomat. Catherine (Katie) Putz is managing editor of The Diplomat. She manages the monthly magazine as well as writing on Central Asia and Afghanistan ...