grandson of Peter the Great and heir to the Russian throne. The marriage was unhappy, but the couple did produce one son, Paul. In 1762 Catherine's husband became Tsar Peter III but he was soon ...

The last tsar of the previous dynasty ... Empire to one-sixth of the worldÍs surface. Catherine II, or Catherine the Great , (ruled 1762 Ü1769) brought European neoclassical art and architecture ...

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