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As Catherine the Great ’ s advisor Potemkin posited, this adoration was due to the fact that she was “ the only woman who looked truly fine, and completely a man … As she was tall and powerful, male attire suited her .” Though the balls were by far her most personally beloved and lavish events, Elizabeth often threw children ’ s birthday parties and wedding receptions for those affiliated with her Court, going so far as to provide dowries for each of her ladies-in-waiting.
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Athena had an " androgynous compromise " that allowed her traits and what she stood for to be attributed to male and female rulers alike over the course of history ( such as Marie de ' Medici, Anne of Austria, Christina of Sweden, and Catherine the Great ).
This resulted in two of his most original operas being consigned to his desk drawer, namely Cublai, gran kan de ' Tartari ( Kublai Grand Kahn of Tartary ) a satire on the autocracy and court intrigues at the court of the Russian Czarina, Catherine the Great, and Catilina ( Cataline ) a semi-comic-semi-tragic account of the Catiline conspiracy that attempted to overthrow the Roman republic during the consulship of Cicero.
Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia from 1762 – 1796, was a member of the House of Ascania, herself the daughter of Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst.
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* 1728 – Tsar Peter III of Russia, husband of Catherine the Great ( d. 1762 )
* The Great Catherine ( 1913 )
The monument to Catherine the Great | Catherine II in Saint Petersburg
Catherine II, the Great, was a German princess who married the German heir to the Russian crown.
Catherine the Great extended Russian political control over the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth with actions including the support of the Targowica Confederation, although the cost of her campaigns, on top of the oppressive social system that required lords ' serfs to spend almost all of their time laboring on the lords ' land, provoked a major peasant uprising in 1773, after Catherine legalized the selling of serfs separate from land.
In 1775, Atake Tynay Biy Uulu one of the leaders of Sarybagysh tribe established first diplomatic ties with the Russian Empire by sending his envoys to Catherine the Great in Saint Petersburg.
There are also comparisons between Khan with Catherine the Great or Napoleon with their building and destroying nations.
The situation in Russia had improved greatly since the accession to the throne of Catherine the Great, and in 1766 Euler accepted an invitation to return to the St. Petersburg Academy and spent the rest of his life in Russia.
* 1729 – Catherine the Great, Russian empress ( d. 1796 )
It is notable for its beautiful and unique sculptures, especially the " Twelve Virgins " at the Northern Gate, the depictions of Otto I the Great and his wife Editha as well as the statues of St Maurice and St Catherine.
Upon the death of Peter the Great in 1725, Catherine, Peter's wife succeeded to the throne of the Russian Empire as Czarina Catherine I.
Catherine II ( the Great ), who ruled in 1762 – 96, presided over the Age of Russian Enlightenment.
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) – Catherine II of Russia ( called Catherine The Great ) dies and is succeeded by her son Paul I of Russia.
* November 6 – Catherine the Great of Russia ( b. 1729 )
* February 21 – Emperor Peter III of Russia, husband of Catherine the Great ( d. 1762 )
* Catherine the Great gives the nobles absolute control over their serfs.
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* Catherine Cathiard and Patrick Thourot, co general manager of Scor, " La Société Européenne: bilan, perspectives et retour d ’ expérience ", ACTES PRATIQUES & Ingénierie Sociétaire, n ° 102, nov-déc.
As a wedding present, Mudd's father gave the couple of his best farmland, known as St. Catherine ’ s, and a new house.
He was imprisoned in 1534 for his refusal to take the oath required by the First Succession Act, because the act disparaged papal power and Henry ’ s marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
The king did not want to use royal funds, so he instead combined two colleges ( King ’ s Hall and Michaelhouse ) and seven hostels ( Physwick ( formerly part of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge ), Gregory ’ s, Ovyng ’ s, Catherine ’ s, Garratt, Margaret ’ s, and Tyler ’ s ) to form Trinity.
Twyla Tharp received two Emmy Awards, 19 honorary doctorates, the Vietnam Veterans of America President ’ s Award, the 2004 National Medal of the Arts, and numerous grants including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship.
* Catherine Hardwicke ’ s The Nativity Story ( 2006 ).
In April 1547, using Edward ’ s support to circumvent Somerset ’ s opposition, Thomas Seymour secretly married Henry VIII's widow Catherine Parr, whose Protestant household included the 11-year-old Lady Jane Grey and the 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth.
Similar disorder surrounding the St Catherine ’ s Hill Fair, held just outside the town on the Pilgrims ' Way, was suppressed around the same time.
Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, first cousins and the second and fifth wives of Henry VIII were both condemned to be burnt alive or beheaded for adultery as the king ’ s pleasure should be known.
Catherine de la Pole was to provide Owen Tudor's children with food, clothing, and lodging, and both boys were allowed servants to wait upon them as the King ’ s half-brothers.
The main church in the central square, St Catherine ’ s Church (‘ Catharinakerk ’) was virtually destroyed in the World War II bombing and restoration took from 1948 to 1963.
In A History of Missouri ( 1908 ), Louis Houck states that the head rights to this mill were owned by Asherbranner himself, but were held instead by Philip Bollinger, a relative of Asherbranner ’ s wife, Barbara Bollinger Asherbranner, daughter of John and Catherine Fulbright Bollinger.
Davault ’ s third son, Daniel, the seventh of nine children of Davault and Catherine Whitener Bollinger, succeeded his father as miller.
fi: St Catherine ’ s College ( Oxford )
Catherine the Great and her son and heir, the future Paul I, maintained a distant relationship throughout the former ’ s reign.
The aunt of Catherine ’ s husband, empress Elizabeth, took up the child as a passing fancy.
Grigorii Orlov, one of Catherine ’ s favoured lovers, went into quarantine shortly following an outbreak of the Moscow plague.
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The Chapel of Saint Catherine with parts of her relic s in the Basilica of San Domenico in Siena
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Peter the Great had two wives, Yevdokiya Lopukhina ( the daughter of a minor noble ) and Marfa Skavronskaya ( a Lithuanian peasant, renamed Catherine after her conversion to Orthodoxy ) Catherine I ’ s rise through Peter I ’ s Table of Ranks from a simple peasant to empress, embodied the Petrine spirit, making it seems as though Peter I literally “ created ” her With the help of Aleksandr Menshikov ( her advisor, ex-lover and leader of the palace guards ), she gained the throne by emphasizing this connection to Peter I and her maternal nature.
He left Reuters in January 2010 to take up his current role as press, media and strategic communications advisor to Catherine Ashton, the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
In the 1760s, for instance, Ivan Betskoy was appointed by the Russian Tsarina, Catherine II, as educational advisor.
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