Taken from Catherine at birth and raised by his great aunt, Empress Elizabeth, and tutor, Minister Panin, Paul never formed a loving relationship with Catherine. The brutal, conniving and ambitious ...

Peter was then killed shortly afterwards and it is not known whether Catherine had a part in his death. She subsequently had a series of lovers ... begun by Peter the Great. During her reign ...

For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress — who reigned from 1762 ...