Catherine the Great
| Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst (Catherine the Great) was a Russian political puppet of German elite family Anhalt (House of Ascania), used to play the role of Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. She was given the name Catherine after becoming a member of the Russian Orthodox Church. Like Frederick the Great and Frederick II of Bavaria, she protected the jesuits (Superior-Generals Stanislaus Czerniewicz and Thaddeus Brzozowski) during their suppression in 1773. She helped spreading the so-called Enlightenment by supporting Voltaire and Denis Diderot. She married Peter II of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp. |  |
Her son Paul I was Grandmaster of the Order of Malta and in contact with Jacob Frank. He married Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg (Frederick V and Elizabeth Stuart bloodline). The house of Holstein-Romanov is a branch of the Oldenburg bloodline (Cavalcabo like Este and Pallavicino descendants of Obertenghi).
In 1764 she established the Moscow Foundling Home.
Her friend Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova was the first female member of Benjamin Franklin's American Philosophical Society.
In 1791 jews were round up in the Pale of Settlement between the Austrian Empire and Russia. Her army fought Frederick the Great (Wittelsbach).
After Napoléon conquered Malta, the Knights of Malta moved their base to St Petersburg.
Her son Alexander I became Emperor of Russia in 1801, after Paul I's assassination. His homosexual friend AN Golitsyn lead the Ministry of Spiritual Affairs and recognized the Moravian Church. He expelled the jesuits and closed all masonic lodges. The jesuits settled in Georgia (Tbisili Spiritual Seminary), re-entered Spain and England, used anarchists to reclaim Russia. Alexander was poisoned.
Paul I's son Nicholas I was Emperor from 1826. He imposed orthodoxy on Ukraine and Belarus.
Alexander II's mistress was Catherine Dolgorukova, related to Helena Blavatsky. After Alexander II's assassination the secret service Okhrana was founded.
born in 1729.
died 1796.
Catherine the Great in pop culture
1824 Lord Byron Don Juan
1934 The Scarlett Empress (Scarlett Woman Babalon) Marlene Dietrich
1934 The Rise of Catherine the Great Douglas Fairbanks Jr (Order of St John)
1944 Catherine Was Great Mae West
1960s Katharine Graham is nicknamed Katharine the Great
1995 Catherine the Great Catherine Zeta-Jones Ian Richardson Jeanne Moreau Christoph Waltz Marvin Chomsky (cousin of Noam Chomsky)
2019 Catherine the Great Helen Mirren Jason Clarke Sky Atlantic HBO
2020 The Great Hulu Elle Fanning