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BIRTH
She was born on May 2, 1729 in Stettin's Old Palace. Russia was his adopted country, because he had been born in a German principality. -
MARRIAGE WITH PEDRO III
At the age of fifteen, Catherine II married with her cousin, Peter III, a year older than her. She won the unconditional support of the Empress Elizabeth I, the daughter of Peter the Great, when the Court humiliated and hated her. -
Catalina II
On July 9 in 1762, one of the most powerful women of time ascended to the throne of Russia -
CORONATION OF CATALINA II
When Elizabeth died on July 13 in 1762, was the coronation of Catalina II and Pere III, was the new emperor. -
ESTANISLAO PONIATOWSKI, CATALINA'S LOVER
She got her lover Stanislaus Poniatowski elected king of Poland and four years later put Polish liberties and laws under her control. -
REBELLIONS AND WAR WITH TURKEY
Catherine II, wanted to conquer the territories of Dniester, because the Ottoman Empire was the traditional enemy of the Russians. The war with Turkey, started in 1768, it was a victory for Catherine II, his troops were inferior in number but they were better trained. -
THE DEATH OF CATALINA
On November 17, 1796, when she was sixty-one years old, she was found dead in her cabinet, showing no symptoms of any illness.
