Catherine the Great
 Catherine was a passionate woman.  Throughout her life, she found pleasure in the men of her court.  This fact has been well documented by historians and in her memoirs.

 

Catherine II

 1752 Serge Saltykov
1756 Stanislaw Poniatowski
1758 Gregory Orlov
1772 Alexander Vassichikov
1774 Gregory Potemkin
1776 Peter Zavandovski
1777 Simon Zorich
1778 Ivan Rimsky-Korsakov
1780 Alexander Lanskoi
1783 Alexander Ermolov
1786 Alexander Mamonov
1789 Plato Zubov

Gregory Orlov

Gregory Potemkin

Catherine on her
relationship with her husband Peter:

   "In short, never did two minds resemble each other less than ours; we had nothing in common in our tastes, nor in our ways of thinking. Our opinions were so different that we would never have agreed on anything, had I not often given in to him so as not to affront him too noticeably."

Peter III

 
 

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